Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:58:02 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, mark@seeware.dialix.oz.au Subject: Re: More EIDE questions Message-ID: <199602070358.OAA09852@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > 3) I presently have two IDE HDs and am planning on buying a new >> > shiny one when I upgrade. According to the salesman I should >> > be able to drive 4 HDs off an EIDE drive - Is this true for >> >> We don't support E-IDE. So if 4 drives are a special E-IDE feature, I don't >> think it would work. >Hmmm... I'm not sure if that's correct. I am running 3 hard drives on an >EIDE interface card as wd0, wd1, wd2, and see no problems at all. Yeah, >it has both wdc0 and wdc1 on the card. EIDE is supposed to be an extension of IDE, so old drivers should work with it to within the limitations of the IDE interface and the old drivers. There are no gratuitous size limitations for the wd driver, but there may be speed limitations. Bruce
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