From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 6 8:29:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from web5101.mail.yahoo.com (web5101.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.106.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EAAC37B440 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000906152911.29151.qmail@web5101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.101.90.237] by web5101.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:29:11 EST Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:29:11 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= Subject: Re: mobo that will support 8 IDE? To: hardware@freebsd.org Cc: "Robert J. Adams" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have an Abit BP6 board it has 4 IDE ports (supports 8 drives). There are quite a few newer boards that have additional IDE controllers on board to provide support from UDMA66/100 that the base motherboard chipset cannot handle. have a look at Abit, Aopen, or MSI's range for example. * * * * * * "Robert J. Adams" wrote:> > Hello all,> > Anyone happen to know of a motherboard that will support 8 IDE drives? I'm pretty sure you'd have to get some addon cards to handle that many IDE drives. Good luck,Doug _____________________________________________________________________________ http://geocities.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ GeoCities - Build your own Web Site - for free! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message