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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Lots of hard drives Date: 17 Feb 1994 20:00:04 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2k0ic4$809@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk>, John Oconnor (con) <OCONNOR_J@SVHDEV.TE.BT.CO.UK> wrote: >Can FreeBSD .... handle > 2 hard drives on a system? > >I have 2 ESDI drives on a standard controller plus 4 SCSI drives on an adaptec >1542b. > >I'd really like to put enough of an OS to BOOT on one of the ESDI drives and >access other stuff on one of the SCSI drives. Sure, but due to brain-dead PC hardware it's difficult to set up things so that you can boot off a secondary drive, so you'll need to do a custom install to get everything working right. This is non-trivial to do, since the install scripts do not handle multiple drive installs currently and modifying them to do it correctly is also non-trivial. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.