From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 19: 5:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B356437B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:05:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A01543EBE for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:05:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2002120503055600200355die>; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:05:56 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A868E48463; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:16:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Jack L. Stone" , "Mike Hogsett" , "mike" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:06:07 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021204111132.03ac2238@mail.sage-one.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server. Message-Id: <20021205031638.A868E48463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:11:32 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: >At 11:49 AM 12.4.2002 -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote: >>On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:12:47 -0800, Mike Hogsett wrote: >> >>> >>>Can't you just go down into /dev and do : >>> >>> >>>./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 >>> >>>and gain access to the 4 drives on a second (supported) IDE controller? >> >>I know i did that when i installed a promise ATA66&100 addon card.. I >>had to make ad4 5 6 7 >> >>although i only had 1 drive and two cdroms on the mobo controller >> >>--- >>doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net >> > >Yes, with RAID enabled on the MB, then it wants ad4 as first device and up >as far as FBSD is concerned. Using the ATA enable only (and not the RAID) >then it is not activated... at least on my MB with a Promise ATA100/RAID. >The MB uses jumpers for each of these. mine wasn't RAID. it jumps to ad4 because the mb has ad0 - ad3 --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message