*BSD News Article 27585


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft
From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Lots of hard drives
Date: 18 Feb 1994 00:52:18 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Feb17195218@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
References: <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: OCONNOR_J@SVHDEV.TE.BT.CO.UK's message of Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:02:28 GMT


In article <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk>
OCONNOR_J@SVHDEV.TE.BT.CO.UK (John Oconnor (con)) writes:

   Can FreeBSD (or NetBSD) handle > 2 hard drives on a system?

   I have 2 ESDI drives on a standard controller plus 4 SCSI drives on
   an adaptec 1542b.

This should work fine in either NetBSD or FreeBSD.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532.
  In progress: pmax, sun3.