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Date:      Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:06:07 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, "Mike Hogsett" <hogsett@csl.sri.com>, "mike" <mike@unixhideout.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server.
Message-ID:  <20021205031638.A868E48463@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021204111132.03ac2238@mail.sage-one.net>

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On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:11:32 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:

>At 11:49 AM 12.4.2002 -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote:
>>On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:12:47 -0800, Mike Hogsett wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Can't you just go down into /dev and do :
>>>
>>>
>>>./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7
>>>
>>>and gain access to the 4 drives on a second (supported) IDE controller?
>>
>>I know i did that when i installed a promise ATA66&100 addon card..  I
>>had to make ad4 5 6 7
>>
>>although i only had 1 drive and two cdroms on the mobo controller
>>
>>---
>>doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net
>>
>
>Yes, with RAID enabled on the MB, then it wants ad4 as first device and up
>as far as FBSD is concerned. Using the ATA enable only (and not the RAID)
>then it is not activated... at least on my MB with a Promise ATA100/RAID.
>The MB uses jumpers for each of these.

mine wasn't RAID.  it jumps to ad4 because the mb has ad0 - ad3
---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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