From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 6 20:09:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA18443 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA18433 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:09:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA09852; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:58:02 +1100 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:58:02 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199602070358.OAA09852@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: More EIDE questions Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, mark@seeware.dialix.oz.au Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> > 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. EIDE is supposed to be an extension of IDE, so old drivers should work with it to within the limitations of the IDE interface and the old drivers. There are no gratuitous size limitations for the wd driver, but there may be speed limitations. Bruce