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From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon)
Subject: *BSD on a third IDE drive?
Message-ID: <1993Sep10.200956.11439@alw.nih.gov>
Keywords: Second IDE controller
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Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 20:09:56 GMT
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(Subquestion 1, since I haven't really found out: can you put a second
IDE controller on an ISA 486DX?)
Main question 1: Does the wd controller in *BSD support a second IDE drive?
The sales folks at CompUSA tell me (a) an IDE controller can only
handle two drives, and (b) you can put in a second controller to get
a third and fourth drive. Please don't flame CompUSA for me; I don't
really expect much expertise from them. But I may have to return
the controller and drive.
Reason for the question: Two drives, 150MB partitions on each for a
total of 300MB, just not enough to "buildworld.sh" -- I've drastically
cut out whole packages, and it still bottoms both disks.
I know, SCSI is the way to go. Perhaps I'll have to go that way,
expensive though it is. I'd like some comments -- by mail please,
since I frequently see "skipping unavailable article ....."
Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov
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