Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:38:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3 Hard Drives via EIDE Accel. Card Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950621121419.4963C-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950620230550.17710A-100000@efn.org>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, John-Mark Gurney 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... > Can you tell me the brand of the vlb card that you are using? I wanted to use my current no name brand vlb card (I think it has a Goldstar chip though) for 2 eide drives and an ISA IDE card for just an old non-EIDE/non-ATA drive all on the same computer. Will this combination work? Is wd0 supposed to be irq 14 and wd1 irq 15?
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