From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 6 23:50:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA07294 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:50:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA07289 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id IAA04580 ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:50:12 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id IAA28425 ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:50:11 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA19109; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:44:54 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199602070744.IAA19109@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: More EIDE questions To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:44:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: mark@seeware.dialix.oz.au, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Howard Lew at "Feb 6, 96 12:55:40 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1630 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL5 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Howard Lew said: > 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. I said "if..." :-) My knowledge of *IDE is quite limited, having decided a long time ago *IDE was crap and that SCSI was the only way. I happily use two SCSI controllers with 7 devices on it and still use only two IRQ for 4 disks, 2 streamers and a CD-ROM... -- 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