From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 6 18:47:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [206.161.83.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5C6153E2 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from bug (216-164-236-119.s119.tnt12.lnh.md.dialup.rcn.com [216.164.236.119]) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA01319 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:47:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002b01bec81a$9eaaef60$0286860a@tasam.com> From: "Joe Gleason" To: Subject: more than 4 ide drives Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:46:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems that abit has come out with a board with 4 channels on onboard ide, allowing for a total of 8 drives. http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/be6.htm Does anyone know if I will be able to create a beast with 8 ide drives and this mothboard running FreeBSD? My intention is to get a bunch of cheap and decent sized (8-13gb) ide drives and make a big ccd set out of them for a file server. I want to use ide because speed and fault tolerance are not required, but random access is required (so no tape). Joe Gleason Tasam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message