From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 08:57:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA23438 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:57:04 -0700 Received: from iri18.infores.com (iri18.infores.com [137.103.40.8]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA23419 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:56:59 -0700 From: Jonathan_Miller_at_PO.CHI03@smtplink.infores.com Received: from smtplink.infores.com (smtplink2.infores.com) by iri18.infores.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA218735797; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 11:56:37 -0400 Received: from ccMail by smtplink.infores.com (SMTPLINK V2.10.05) id AA808426535; Mon, 14 Aug 95 10:48:30 EST Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 10:48:30 EST Message-Id: <9507148084.AA808426535@smtplink.infores.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: BT-410A EIDE multi-boot solution? Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In the January, 1995, UNIX Review, David Baily, mentions the Bus Logic BT-410A IDE caching controller as a multi-booting solution. The controller is supposed to let you boot from any one of up to 4 attached drives. Has anyone used one of these with FreeBSD? If so, how do you like it? I want to load FreeBSD, Windows NT workstation, and Windows 95 (each on a separate drive) on my system. Do you think one of these controllers would be a worth while investment (I will need to upgrade my IDE controller to EIDE to accomodate for the third drive that I will be purchasing anyway)? Does anyone know of any similar controllers with the multi-boot facility but with out the cache (a less expensive alternative). Also, will I still be able to mount any MS-DOS FAT partitions from FreeBSD if I do this? Any comments or suggestions be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jon -- jonathan.miller@infores.com