From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 19 12:22:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA12459 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA12447 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA16923 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:22:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02007; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:08:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970619210856.RZ13269@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:08:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) References: <19970619090317.EZ61808@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706190815.EAA09892@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706190815.EAA09892@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel N. Weber II on Jun 19, 1997 04:15:36 -0400 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joel N. Weber II wrote: > The Linux IDE driver can support four busses, I think, so you can have > eight drives. FreeBSD can support N controllers, i think. N is usually limited by the number of IRQ lines. (Funny you should mention Linux here, historically it hasn't been a very shining example in this field. Their first floppy driver even hardcoded the DMA channel by a #define, and the timers were arranged in fixed slots.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)