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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!transfer.stratus.com!noc.near.net!hopscotch.ksr.com!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Lots of hard drives Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:03:01 GMT Organization: Kendall Square Research Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2kgga5$2pu@hopscotch.ksr.com> References: <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaos.ksr.com In article <1994Feb16.130228.11499@zoo.bt.co.uk> OCONNOR_J@SVHDEV.TE.BT.CO.UK (John Oconnor (con)) writes: > Can FreeBSD (or NetBSD) handle > 2 hard drives on a system? > I have 2 ESDI drives on a standard controller plus 4 SCSI drives on > an adaptec 1542b. Four SCSI drives, a SCSI tape, and (briefly) a broken CD-ROM. Works like a champ. One more device (well, two since I have to replace the CD-ROM) and I have to think about another SCSI controller. Stick that in your IDE and smoke it ;-). Works fine under NetBSD, and would under FreeBSD as well. Piece of cake.