From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 13:24:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03090 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (smtp.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03085 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA08519; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 08:21:48 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808292021.IAA08519@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: George Vagner Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 08:21:38 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Kernel with > 2 IDE devices Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <35E81839.52BC3A2A@vagner.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message