Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Eric Weigle (ehw@lanl.gov)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:41:40 -0600

> > [Puzzle]
> > Say the power supply had five 5.25" drive power connecters, how many 1
> > into 3 power cable splitters would you need to connect all 4000 disks?
>> 400 (hit me if this is wrong :)
> Hit hit hit.
>
> Could be wrong, but I make it 1939.
> Nik
Uhm.. how? You start with 5, each 1-3 splitter takes one and provides 3,
net gain of 2, regardless of how it's wired. 5+2*x >= 4000 --> x>=1998.

-Eric

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