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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: *BSD on a third IDE drive?
Date: 23 Sep 1993 11:09:06 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH Dresden, Germany
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Message-ID: <27rp3iINNf2d@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <1993Sep10.200956.11439@alw.nih.gov> <27c77pINNs45@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <1993Sep17.180539.23494@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Keywords: Second IDE controller
In <1993Sep17.180539.23494@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes:
>In article <27c77pINNs45@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>|> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes:
>|> >(Subquestion 1, since I haven't really found out: can you put a second
>|> >IDE controller on an ISA 486DX?)
>|>
>|> FreeBSD is supposed to be able so. 386BSD + pk 0.2.4 needs patching.
>|> The real problem: you need an IDE adapter able to jumper to secondary
>|> address and IRQ.
>I think you meant to say that NetBSD is supposed to be able to.
>NetBSD has the 'barsoom' driver (from Tom Helbekkmo), which does
>support multiple wd controllers.
*I* don't have FreeBSD (yet). But i've patched the old wd driver to
be able maintaining two controllers, and the FreeBSD folks responded
me ``we've already done this''.
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