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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:48:39 +0100 (CET)
From:      Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
To:        mike <mike@unixhideout.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server.
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSX.4.44.0212051143420.2971-100000@mobile.webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <1196.192.168.1.10.1038974197.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com>

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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, mike wrote:

> A: What is the hardware name of the device i am looking for that will
> allow more then 4 ide devices to one box.

Add extra IDE card(s).

> B: do you know of a brand name i should be looking for that you recommend,
> or even a retailer.

Quite happy with a machine with 1scsi+16ide disks based on an 8 port IDE
raid card delivered by www.asacomputers.com using a 3WARE Escalade IDE pci
card.  Though with hindsight I propably should have used 2 4 port IDE
cards instead; as I am often hitting card bandwidth.

DW


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