From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 11 7:11: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D4537B416 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (lille-1-a7-3-119.dial.proxad.net [62.147.3.119]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 8032AB1 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:10:51 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: mess-mate To: "freebsd-questions-en" Subject: Re: legacy ISA IDE controller card Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:06:59 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020210234410.023ebec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020210234410.023ebec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20020211151051.8032AB1@postfix2-1.free.fr> 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 On Monday 11 February 2002 06:00, you wrote: | At 11:20 PM 2/10/02 -0500, Noone Here wrote: | >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. | | It's been a while since I've used one of these, so my memory may be | foggy on this. Anyone, please feel free to correct me. | | Unless the card has its own on-board BIOS - and I have never seen | an old legacy ISA controller that did, though some of the newest | ISA controllers may have one - the drives are detected by the | system BIOS, so I assume you cannot have more than 4 drives.=20 IMHO, you'r right. (Or | whatever your system's limits is - some can only take 2.) I've | never tried to push this limit myself, though, so it's possible it | will do what you're hoping. | | I'd be interested in hearing if the OS could actually see a drive | that the BIOS does not know about.=20 I don't think so. And the BIOS MUST HAVE a PNP extension. I know there where someones who's deactivated the PnP in their bios=20 with a pnp card on board. It never worked for me ! Have 2 pnp card's, work's fine with other=20 OS, but didn't test it with FBSD at now. Shall doit next week. If it can, you can probably load | up the system with as many controllers as the system's resources | will allow and not have any trouble. | | All I can say is, plug in 5 hard disks and see if it works. Perhaps | someone else has actually tried this already and can offer | something more substantive. | | Beware of conflicts with your ISA devices - choose your settings | carefully. Don't forget to install the isapnp tools. | | Matt --=20 mess-mate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message