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Re: RAMFast question



In <CxMH45.H1x@crash.cts.com> shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:

>In article <jxj119.59.2E9BFCE5@email.psu.edu>,
>Jason Jeffries <jxj119@email.psu.edu> wrote:

>>SCSI supports seven devices in one chain, and the controller counts as one 
>>of them, so you could, in theory, hook 6 devices up to a RAMFast. On most 
>>SCSI drives there are two connectors on the back, one of which is used to 
>>connect another drive.

>You mean eight devices, one of which is the CPU. That's why Macs with internal
>hard disks are said to support six external SCSI devices.

Ok..everybody is saying 8 devices.  Here's the mail Jawaid sent me.

J>  GS/OS doesn't have a limitation. The RamFAST has a 12 partition limit.
J>If you're going to have two drives without dual-connectors on the back,
J>then you may need to get a y-connector.


Now I'm assuming partition==device, right?