From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 10 20:20:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f170.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C83F37B447 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:20:21 -0800 Received: from 24.186.19.146 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:20:21 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.186.19.146] Reply-To: oldtlhingan@hotmail.com From: "Noone Here" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: legacy ISA IDE controller card Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:20:21 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2002 04:20:21.0995 (UTC) FILETIME=[6BC383B0:01C1B2B3] 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 i have an old ISA controller card which i wanted to use so i can go beyond the 4 IDE drives my pc handles onboard. are there any special considerations? would /stand/sysinstall see this additional controller and any drives(s) attached to it? or would it be better to install it "by hand" - and if so, how? is it possible, if i had more than one of these ISA controller cards, to use them all? how many IDE drives can i hook up this way on one machine? i was imagining some kind of raid/vinum thing with a slew of cheapo disks. -R.A.O. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message