From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 26 08:22:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA07161 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xenon.chromatic.com (xenon.chromatic.com [199.5.224.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA07126 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohio.chromatic.com (ohio.chromatic.com [199.5.224.98]) by xenon.chromatic.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02417; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hua@localhost) by ohio.chromatic.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA11906; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:21:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernest Hua Message-Id: <199609261521.IAA11906@ohio.chromatic.com> To: ata@dt.wdc.com Subject: Is it possible to have > 2 IDE controllers? Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, hua@ohio.chromatic.com Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to get more than 2 IDE controllers working on a PC running FreeBSD. There are obviously two sides to this question: 1. Can FreeBSD do it? 2. Can the hardware support it? I am not concerned about the system BIOS recognizing the 3rd controller on boot up, although I suspect that would be nice. Does anyone on this mailing list know the answer to question #2 above? I am specifically talking about having more than two master controllers (each with up to the standard two drives). I am NOT talking about having more than two drives on a single cable (say, for instance, master + 2 slaves). Ern