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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Lots of hard drives
Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:03:01 GMT
Organization: Kendall Square Research
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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.

Four SCSI drives, a SCSI tape, and (briefly) a broken CD-ROM.  Works like
a champ.  One more device (well, two since I have to replace the CD-ROM) and
I have to think about another SCSI controller.  Stick that in your IDE and
smoke it ;-).

Works fine under NetBSD, and would under FreeBSD as well.  Piece of cake.