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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 14:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE+SCSI?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SCO.3.91.960703143729.24908I-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <mE802BE8B@longacre.demon.co.uk>

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On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Michael Searle wrote:

> Are there any problems with having a SCSI and IDE drives in the same
> computer under FreeBSD? The boot drive would be the SCSI, dual booting
> DOS/FreeBSD. There would be DOS and FreeBSD partitions on the IDE drive.

I have mixed boxes the the boot drive must be the IDE I believe.


> 
> What about using drives at the same time - is this possible with SCSI, and
> one IDE drive, or if there were more than one IDE drive? The IDE drives

I have one box with 2 ide drives, and 4 scsi drives on separate 
controlers (3 controllers total) - no problem.  

> could be on separate controllers, as the IDE controller is a PCI bus master
> with two channels (supports PIO modes 3 and 4, and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode
> 2.)
> 
> -- 
> Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk
> 



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