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Article #25943Re: Mac disk sizes
From: David W. Berry
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1988 03:48
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1988 03:48
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In article <8359@eddie.MIT.EDU> zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes: >In article <1054@ut-emx.UUCP> ayac071@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass) writes: >>Is there a limit in the OS or hardware that restricts the size or number of >>hard disks that you can attach to a mac II? Thanks, >> >SCSI will accomodate only 7 disks using first level SCSI addressing. >Using NuBus interfaces you could have up to the theoretical maximum of >2^16 drives (volumes). Actually, each SCSI address/controller can have a theoretical maximum of 8 drives attached to it, common controller's support 4. Thus without using any slot's you could have 56 drives attached, the controller would have to be smart enough and the driver would take a lot of work. You could even boot off of seven of them...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!claris!apple!dwb From: dwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac disk sizes Message-ID: <7554@apple.Apple.Com> Date: 4 Mar 88 03:48:40 GMT References: <1054@ut-emx.UUCP> <8359@eddie.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) Distribution: na Organization: Ungermann-Bass Enterprises Lines: 12