From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 19 02:05:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA17810 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 02:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA17800 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 02:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA27186; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:34:57 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706190904.SAA27186@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) In-Reply-To: <199706190815.EAA09892@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel N. Weber II" at "Jun 19, 97 04:15:36 am" To: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joel N. Weber II) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:34:57 +0930 (CST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joel N. Weber II stands accused of saying: > The Linux IDE driver can support four busses, I think, so you can have > eight drives. I've had four IDE controllers in an old '386 under 2.0; there's no hard limit other than I/O address and number of free IRQ's with the BSD driver AFAIK. NB: two of these controllers had track butchery to shift their base addresses and IRQs. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[