From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 24 14:58:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (adsl-63-195-43-53.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.43.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF8F537C234 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 15817 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 22:58:15 -0000 Received: from toy.chip-web.com (HELO bigfoot.com) (@172.16.1.30) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 22:58:15 -0000 Message-ID: <38B5B787.BDC6CF89@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:58:15 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Wyatt Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: incoming bandwidth for linguistic project? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Wyatt wrote: > > On 25 Feb 2000, Julian Assange wrote: > > running freebsd with 256 mb ram. > > with 5 x 40 Gb ide drives (e.g maxtor), with room > > for another 3 drives > > Did miss some functionality, or are you limited to four total IDE devices > on the two IDE interfaces most motherboards have? Does someone make an IDE > controller that uses cable-select that FreeBSD has drivers for? btw: One > of your IDE devices may be taken by a CDROM drive... - Jy@ You could 1) Use the motherboard's two ide channels plus an add-in IDE card (like the Promise ATA/66). This words under -CURRENT and -STABLE (with patches) 2) Use one of the Abit motherboards with the HighPoint ATA-66 controller, for a total of 4 ide channels on the motherboard (2 Ultra-33, 2 Ultra-66) --Ludwig Pummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message