From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 23:10:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02413 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:10:28 -0700 Received: from efn.efn.org (gurney_j@efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA02407 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:10:25 -0700 Received: by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA19162; Tue, 20 Jun 95 23:10:14 PDT Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:10:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney To: Howard Lew Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3 Hard Drives via EIDE Accel. Card In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Jun 1995, Howard Lew wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone has had success with using 3 IDE hard drives under > FreeBSD with a 2HD/2FD controller and one of those EIDE Accelerator > cards that support the third. > > Or can I use 2 regular IDE cards? And I have also heard about 4HD/4FD > controllers... How well do they work with FreeBSD? > > Any info is appreciated. it works very well... right now I am using a vlb card that has dual IDE channels... I used to have four IDE hard drives running on it... but now I have two IDE drives, one on each channel... you can use another ide controller you just need to make sure that it does change the irq to something other than 14... I have some winbond controlers that allow you to set the ide channel to a second channel but I have not gotten those to work... TTYL... John-Mark Gurney gurney_j@efn.org -or- gurney_j@4j.lane.edu -or- Fido: John-Mark Gurney @ 1:152/56.2