From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 12:38:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA13016 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:38:41 -0700 Received: from marmite.Stanford.EDU (2842@marmite.Stanford.EDU [36.159.0.58]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA13006 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:38:40 -0700 Received: (hlew@localhost) by marmite.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.4) id MAA05022; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:38:21 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:38:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: John-Mark Gurney 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 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?