From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 5:26:48 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 A885E37B404 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from foem.leiden.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE1F43EBE for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB5Amekb003203; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:48:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:48:39 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik To: mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server. In-Reply-To: <1196.192.168.1.10.1038974197.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message