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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In reply: > 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 -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@argus.flash.net - FlashNet Communications - Ft. Worth, Texas
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