From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 6 12:56:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA10688 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:56:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (vegemite.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.158]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10672 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.4) id MAA22693; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:55:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:55:40 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Ollivier Robert cc: Mark Hannon , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More EIDE questions In-Reply-To: <199602052312.AAA12629@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that Mark Hannon said: > > The system I am considering is a new 486 motherboard with > > ISA and VLB slots. I have a few questions.... > > VLB seems pretty dead now... I'd recommend buying PCI. > > > 1) I see in the handbook that VLB busses are OK but I can't > > see how I should configure this for the kernel. Do I just > > use the isa0 entry?? > > Yes, there are no special considerations kernel-wise for VLB. > > > 2) On the same line of questioning, what devices can I put on > > the VLB bus? I can either get a new EIDE controller to run > > from the ISA bus or from one of the VLB slots. I assume > > that it is the same wdc[01] I use irrespective of which bus > > I stick the card in??? > > Yes. > > > 3) I presently have two IDE HDs and am planning on buying a new > > shiny one when I upgrade. According to the salesman I should > > be able to drive 4 HDs off an EIDE drive - Is this true for > > We don't support E-IDE. So if 4 drives are a special E-IDE feature, I don't > think it would work. Hmmm... I'm not sure if that's correct. I am running 3 hard drives on an EIDE interface card as wd0, wd1, wd2, and see no problems at all. Yeah, it has both wdc0 and wdc1 on the card. > > But, really, do yourself a favor, buy SCSI and forget all these IDE > specifics. Just plug and play (the real one, not the PnP aka Plug and Pray > :-)) > > You won't regret it. > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #5: Sun Feb 4 03:11:17 MET 1996 > /--------------------------------------\ / Howard Lew \ < Email: hlew@genome.stanford.edu > \ http://www.shoppersnet.com / \--------------------------------------/