From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 5 22:41:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA03247 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03242 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id HAA07615 ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 07:41:54 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id HAA21825 ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 07:41:53 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id AAA12629; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 00:12:53 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199602052312.AAA12629@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: More EIDE questions To: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 00:12:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark Hannon" at "Feb 5, 96 10:40:37 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1630 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL3 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Mark Hannon said: > The system I am considering is a new 486 motherboard with > ISA and VLB slots. I have a few questions.... VLB seems pretty dead now... I'd recommend buying PCI. > 1) I see in the handbook that VLB busses are OK but I can't > see how I should configure this for the kernel. Do I just > use the isa0 entry?? Yes, there are no special considerations kernel-wise for VLB. > 2) On the same line of questioning, what devices can I put on > the VLB bus? I can either get a new EIDE controller to run > from the ISA bus or from one of the VLB slots. I assume > that it is the same wdc[01] I use irrespective of which bus > I stick the card in??? Yes. > 3) I presently have two IDE HDs and am planning on buying a new > shiny one when I upgrade. According to the salesman I should > be able to drive 4 HDs off an EIDE drive - Is this true for We don't support E-IDE. So if 4 drives are a special E-IDE feature, I don't think it would work. But, really, do yourself a favor, buy SCSI and forget all these IDE specifics. Just plug and play (the real one, not the PnP aka Plug and Pray :-)) You won't regret it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #5: Sun Feb 4 03:11:17 MET 1996