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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support more than 2 IDE Controllers? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:29:25 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32112BF5.7D12@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3210EC8A.61F7F524@levtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Anna Winkler wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports more than 2 IDE controllers? > An example of this setup is two IDE controllers with harddrives, > and a third SoundBlaster controller with a CD-ROM drive. > > Linux (as far as I know) does not support the SoundBlaster adapter > configured as a third IDE adapter. > > Thanks in advance for any help... Whoops! There are only two "official" IDE ports, which is why only two are listed in the 'visual' list if you use the -c option at the boot: prompt. SoundBlaster and similar sound cards simply set their IDE ports to the secondary address and IRQ 15. If your system has either a multi-I/O card or a PCI motherboard with both IDE ports in place, you'll need to use a sound card that does *not* have an IDE port on it. Eventually, the system designers may get around to, say, four IDE ports instead of two, but I tend to think not. For now in any case, if you want that many assorted drives connected to your system, SCSI is the way to go. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |