[juneau-lug] Re: total number of physical hard drives

  • From: Sean Crites <bdk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:11:48 -0800

You can get an ide expansion card, and add 4 more hdds. 

http://www.verbatim.com.au/Hardware/interfacecards/dma100.html

It's the first thing that popped up on google. It's Aussie, but I'm sure 
you can find an American retailer.

As far as the cluster/block size, I don't know. I've always just stuck 
w/ what was default. 'df --help' gets some good options.

-sean

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Zachary at KRSA" <linux@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 7, 2001 12:47 pm
Subject: [juneau-lug] total number of physical hard drives

> While I'm thinking of huge storage ability,  when using EIDE 
> drives, am I limited to four physical drives in a PC? or Could I 
> install an additional EIDE controller for six or two additional 
> controllers for eight hard drives?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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