Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:06:59 +0100 From: mess-mate <messmate@free.fr> To: "freebsd-questions-en" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: legacy ISA IDE controller card Message-ID: <20020211151051.8032AB1@postfix2-1.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020210234410.023ebec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020210234410.023ebec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu>
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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
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