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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support more than 2 IDE Controllers? Date: 14 Aug 1996 07:28:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4urv71$891@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3210EC8A.61F7F524@levtech.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Anna Winkler <awinkler@levtech.com> wrote: > Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports more than 2 IDE controllers? I think you can configure any number of IDE controllers into the kernel, as long as you've got distinct port addresses and IRQ lines for them. (The latter is often enough the show-stopper.) However, the GENERIC kernel has only two controllers, wdc0 and wdc1. -- 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. ;-)