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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)
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Organization: Ungermann-Bass Enterprises
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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...