From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 21:39:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05764 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05755 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03076; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tgiocond.campus.vt.edu (tgiocond.campus.vt.edu [198.82.91.59]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id AAA12764; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:39:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970827003711.0079d230@mail.vt.edu> X-Sender: tgiocond@mail.vt.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:37:11 -0400 To: Shawn Ramsey From: Tom Gioconda Subject: Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives and controllers with FreeBSD Cc: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:06 PM 8/26/97 -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >> 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? Because if I do, the controller manual says that the ultra ATA hard drive won't function correctly. I need a dual win95 + freebsd system, and win95 and a lot of other stuff already on that drive. -Tom ---- This message was written by Tom Gioconda tgiocond@vt.edu