Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:20:38 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Larry Granroth" <larry-granroth@uiowa.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Third IDE controller possible? Message-ID: <199808312320.TAA32382@laker.net>
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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
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