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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:43:37 -0600 (CST)
From:      mailing list account <lists@argus.flash.net>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE and scsi
Message-ID:  <199601200643.AAA00649@argus.flash.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960119165046.6352C-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 19, 96 04:53:50 pm

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> I am trying to help a friend get a (strange) mix of hardware.  Does 
> anyone know if a Adaptec 1542 can coexist with an ide controller and 
> disk?  FreeBSD would be on the scsi disk.  How would booting be handled 
> in this case?  It would probably be under FreeBSD the majority of the 
> time. 

yes they can and do exist peacefully here.

aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 9 drq 6 on isa
(aha0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST32550N 0011" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 2047MB (4194058 512 byte sectors)
sd0(aha0:0:0): with 3511 cyls, 11 heads, and an average 108 sectors/track
(aha0:1:0): "IBM MTA-3230TC2210!B 0" type 0 removable SCSI 2
sd1(aha0:1:0): Direct-Access 217MB (446325 512 byte sectors)
sd1(aha0:1:0): with 17934 cyls, 1 heads, and an average 24 sectors/track
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC31000F>, multi-block-16
wd0: 1033MB (2116800 sectors), 2100 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

here's how i do it.  because of a wierdness [packard bell's problem?] here,
I have the ide entirely FreeBSD and the first 500 megs of the barracuda for
dog and 1500 megs for FreeBSD.  on those [extremely] rare occasions when i
may wish to run dog, i just disable the ide controller and set the drive
type in bios to unused and reboot.  it's a bit cleaner than running a boot
manager, and since this @#$@%!!! box will not boot from a second partition on
the ide [makes a loud clicking noise] it works for me.

> He has an IDE cdrom, and he knows that the IDE cdrom support might be a 
> little sparse for some configurations, and might not work for his.

don't have one...  can't say...

Jim
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