From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 15:07:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA11390 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA11385 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA02163; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:06:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Tom Gioconda cc: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives and controllers with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970826162157.007969e0@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I know. I've installed FreeBSD on several machines using a seperate hard > drive. That was easy. But I'm using the Ultra ATA controller as my only > hard drive controller. The CDROM and ZIP drives are on the motherboard, > but the card says that I have to plug ALL hard drives into that card, if > I'm reading the poorly written docs correctly. If your CDROM is on the motherboard, I would assume the MB has onboard EIDE. Why not connect another hard drive to same interface as the CDROM?