From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 9 11:03:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA16433 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:03:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (root@cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA16401 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@knife.statsci.com) Received: from knife.statsci.com (knife [206.63.206.137]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with ESMTP id LAA17592; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:03:01 -0700 Received: from knife.statsci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knife.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/UUCP) with ESMTP id LAA02241; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710091803.LAA02241@knife.statsci.com> To: "Ross Potts" cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembling new machine References: <199710090048.RAA11124@kithrup.com> <9710090753.ZM7967@unknown.zmail.host> In-reply-to: <9710090753.ZM7967@unknown.zmail.host> From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 11:03:00 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Ross Potts" wrote: > You can do that? I thought that if you tried to mix drive types, the eide would > just take over. HHMMmnnnn! Yup...works fine for me. My home system came IDE & I added SCSI later. I keep a small root partition on the IDE drive (which is the boot drive) and put most of the rest on the extra drive(s). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org