From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 5:25:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC0C37B41B for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15kPMo-0001UU-00; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:25:14 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:25:14 +0100 From: Ceri To: Neil Darlow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tertiary IDE controller Message-ID: <20010921132514.A4804@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010921.10200700@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010921.10200700@ideal.darlow.co.uk>; from neil@darlow.co.uk on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:20:07AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:20:07AM +0000, Neil Darlow said: > I presently have a pair of UDMA-66 drives as primary and secondary > master with a UDMA-33 CD-ROM drive as secondary. > > The CD-ROM drive is pulling the associated disk drive down to UDMA-33 > operation so I wish to move the CD-ROM onto a separate IDE controller. > > Can anyone recommend a good PCI IDE interface card for FreeBSD? I can't, but I would be interested in the result if you find one. One thought is that it may be cheaper to just upgrade the CD-ROM drive, perhaps ? Ceri -- We've tried this God stuff long enough. It's time for a change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message