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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Lots of hard drives
Date: 17 Feb 1994 20:00:04 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk>,
John Oconnor (con) <OCONNOR_J@SVHDEV.TE.BT.CO.UK> wrote:
>Can FreeBSD .... handle > 2 hard drives on a system?
>
>I have 2 ESDI drives on a standard controller plus 4 SCSI drives on an adaptec
>1542b.
>
>I'd really like to put enough of an OS to BOOT on one of the ESDI drives and
>access other stuff on one of the SCSI drives.

Sure, but due to brain-dead PC hardware it's difficult to set up things
so that you can boot off a secondary drive, so you'll need to do a
custom install to get everything working right.  This is non-trivial to
do, since the install scripts do not handle multiple drive installs currently
and modifying them to do it correctly is also non-trivial.


Nate
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