Comment 21 for bug 157909
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| Aaron C. de Bruyn (darkpixel2k) wrote | #21 |
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Re the comment about motherboards and interfaces, I just purchased a new board supports 12 SATA connections onboard. It also supports 2 IDE connections. I'm building a mid-range storage server for my home office. Eventually I'll have enough in the budget to toss a RAID card in instead of doing softraid. This could complicate things more due to the fact that a lot of SATA RAID controllers I run into present the array as an IDE drive.
When I did my initial testing on this bug, I noticed the 'make menuconfig' section of the kernel would only allow me to specify a maximum of 9.
On one hand, it's probably unheard of to find a system that supports 9 IDE drives (requiring 4+ IDE interfaces on the board), but on the other hand, it's not unheard of to find RAID cards exposing themselves as IDE drives which could give you a huge number of IDE drives for the system.