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From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Limit to # of IDE drives?
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>         I am having difficulty in going over 6 IDE drives: I don't seem to
> be able to "configure" the devices (according to the error messages).

What is the exact error message following which action?

>  The
> system has three PCI IDE controllers, each with 2 channels.  Although all
> of the cards are recognized on boot probes, and although every drive seems
> to function if I remove one other drive (resulting in that magical number
> 6 again), I seem unable to get the seventh (or eight, etc.) IDE drive to
> work.

Don't know if there is a limit (can't imagine though). Did you try to
make the /dev entries above /dev/ad6, /dev/ad7, ... ?

Ciao
Siegbert

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