How many Hard Drives will Gentoo supprt?

doesitfeelgood · 09-04-2004, 02:09 PM

Ok, Im a NEWBIE, I am running Gentoo on 3 Systems, all with different hardware. I have heard that Gentoo will only support a limited number of hard drives. Is this true? If so, How many hard drives will Gentoo Support?

watashiwaotaku7 · 09-04-2004, 03:27 PM

in theory gentoo should be able to support as many hard drives as any other linux distro, and unless your into some very crazy things you shouldnt have a problem as it is now in one gentoo box I have 5 hard drives and a cd drive 2 SATA drives as a Raid 0 2 PATA drives as a software (md) Raid 0 an extra for backup and a 16X cd-burner if I had a way to put more on my mobo (or fit more in my case) Im sure gentoo would be just fine with that too, how many drives are you looking to support?

qwijibow · 09-04-2004, 03:48 PM

Gentoo is a Linux distribution... it uses the same kernel (linux) as every other linux distro. and therefore supports all the same hardware.. infact, because gentoo doesnt use version numbers and releases like other distro's gentoo usually runs the very latest kernel, and supports more hardware.