From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 23:08:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11653 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:08:53 -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 XAA11645 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA03035; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:08:36 -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: <3.0.32.19970827003711.0079d230@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 > >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. Hmm. You may be able to add a SCSI drive... but having 2 controllers with their own BIOS may be trouble. You could always put the HD on the onboard EIDE, although that will slow it down somewhat. (though not by much)