Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:08:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) Message-ID: <19970619210856.RZ13269@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199706190815.EAA09892@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel N. Weber II on Jun 19, 1997 04:15:36 -0400 References: <19970619090317.EZ61808@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706190815.EAA09892@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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As Joel N. Weber II wrote: > The Linux IDE driver can support four busses, I think, so you can have > eight drives. FreeBSD can support N controllers, i think. N is usually limited by the number of IRQ lines. (Funny you should mention Linux here, historically it hasn't been a very shining example in this field. Their first floppy driver even hardcoded the DMA channel by a #define, and the timers were arranged in fixed slots.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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