From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 16:21:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28058 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28042 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-142.laker.net [208.0.233.42]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id TAA32382; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:20:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199808312320.TAA32382@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Larry Granroth" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:20:38 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Third IDE controller possible? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:18:35 -0500, Larry Granroth wrote: >I have a system with two IDE controllers currently, the >primary using IRQ 14 and IO range 0x1F0-0x1F7 and the >secondary using IRQ 15 and IO range 0x170-0x377. >I also have another IDE controller that can be configured >for IRQs 11 or 12, but (apparently) only the same IO >ranges as the existing controllers (i.e. a jumper labelled >"primary" or "secondary"). > >My guess is this third controller won't work. Am I wrong? You are correct, it won't work because IBM only designed the PC-AT to support two IDE subsystems with two devices each. If you really need more disk drives or cdroms, etc., get SCSI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message