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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 08:21:38 +1200
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        George Vagner <vagner@kf7nn.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel with > 2 IDE devices
Message-ID:  <199808292021.IAA08519@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <35E81839.52BC3A2A@vagner.com>

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On 29 Aug 98, at 10:03, George Vagner wrote:

> apparently you have an older 486 machine possibly with a promise
> ide vesa local bus card installed.

WOW!  It is a Promise card.  I found a chip labled "1994 Promise PDC20630 
506".  I'm impressed.

> i would try putting both the hard drives on the VLB port since its faster,
> set one to slave the other to master and put the cd-rom on the IDE port
> and set it as slave.

I've been trying one disk on each port.  Next time I try, I'll use your 
setup.

> i have this setup here and it works fine.

In your kernel, do you have both wcd0 and wcd1?

> > On Friday, 28 August 1998 at 19:12:51 +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > I have three IDE devices: 300 Mb disk, 5 Gb disk, CD-ROM.  I have an
> > > IDE card with two IDE connectors (one marked VLB, the other ISA).
> > > I'm trying to figure out what settings I should have in my kernel. Do
> > > I have two controllers with devices on each?  Or one controller with
> > > all the devices under that?


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