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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:38:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 3 Hard Drives via EIDE Accel. Card
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950621121419.4963C-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950620230550.17710A-100000@efn.org>

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On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> 
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone has had success with using 3 IDE hard drives under 
> > FreeBSD with a 2HD/2FD controller and one of those EIDE Accelerator 
> > cards that support the third.
> > 
> > Or can I use 2 regular IDE cards?  And I have also heard about 4HD/4FD 
> > controllers... How well do they work with FreeBSD?
> > 
> > Any info is appreciated.
> 
> it works very well... right now I am using a vlb card that has dual IDE 
> channels...  I used to have four IDE hard drives running on it... but now 
> I have two IDE drives, one on each channel...  you can use another ide 
> controller you just need to make sure that it does change the irq to 
> something other than 14...  I have some winbond controlers that allow you 
> to set the ide channel to a second channel but I have not gotten those to 
> work...  TTYL...
> 

Can you tell me the brand of the vlb card that you are using?
  
I wanted to use my current no name brand vlb card (I think it has a 
Goldstar chip though) for 2 eide drives and an ISA IDE card for just an 
old non-EIDE/non-ATA drive all on the same computer.  Will this 
combination work?


Is wd0 supposed to be irq 14 and wd1 irq 15?  




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