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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on secondary controller Date: 15 Oct 1995 11:21:50 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <45qnbu$it3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45oift$6jk@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Clarence Wilkerson <wilker@math.purdue.edu> wrote: >Can the current freeBSD versions operate from a ide drive on a >secondary port on a EIDE controller ( Promise 2300VL)? FreeBSD was able to handle secondary controllers before EIDE has been flooding the market. :-) The idea of a secondary controller is actually very old. At least, the WD1007V ESDI controller had everything required for this, i.e. not only a jumper for the secondary address, but also one for a different IRQ line. I've been using one of them as a secondary controller (the primary was a small IDE drive) back in 386BSD 0.1 days, with a hacked kernel. FreeBSD doesn't have any specific ideas of *E*IDE however, all it can do is handling it the way it's been handling any other IDE controller. I don't think you will be able to _boot_ off this drive. But don't ask me, i refuse to use IDE crap. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)