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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:34:57 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joel N. Weber II)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...)
Message-ID:  <199706190904.SAA27186@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706190815.EAA09892@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel N. Weber II" at "Jun 19, 97 04:15:36 am"

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Joel N. Weber II stands accused of saying:
> The Linux IDE driver can support four busses, I think, so you can have
> eight drives.

I've had four IDE controllers in an old '386 under 2.0; there's no
hard limit other than I/O address and number of free IRQ's with the
BSD driver AFAIK.

NB: two of these controllers had track butchery to shift their base
addresses and IRQs.

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