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From: Joshua Matthews <jmatthewsNO@DAMN-SPAMalbury.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Two drives.
Date: 10 May 1997 13:39:43 GMT
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Yep. That would be a good choice, its how I had a system that worked
quite well using bootmanager. 
Yes again. I have had 2 ide's on a vl bus controler with no problems
under FreeBSD.

Good luck.

Josh

Ps remove the no and damn-spam from the address. Its a shame we
need to do this.


"Keith W." <kwoody@citytel.netNO-SPAM> wrote:
>
>Just picked up an older 486dx2-66 eisa bus, with a VLB HD/FD controller. 
>Its got a Quantum 525 meg drive. I'm going to retire a 386dx/33 that is 
>currently running bsd on a WD 420 meg drive.
>
>The WD dual boots dos/bsd, but would like to dedicate the entire Quantum 
>to BSD. Should I put the Western Digital as Drive C and move the quantum 
>so it would be drive D and install BSD there? Would this work ok? That is 
>if the two drives will exist togther. 
>
>Does BSD support IDE drives connected to a VLB contoller ok?
>
>kwoody@citytel.net
>