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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD-1.1 support > 1 SCSI adapter ?
Date: 26 Feb 1994 00:44:57 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CLrr80.9to@latcs1.lat.oz.au>,
M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>  I just wonder can FreeBSD-1.1 or even 1.0.2 support more than 1 SCSI
>adapter ? I am thinking of getting a Ultrastor 34F (ISA+VLB) to coexist
>with my AHA1542C, do I simply add this line to config file and recompile
>kernel : (and setup any IRQ to avoid conflicts)

Assuming the hardware is setup w/out conflicts it should work fine,
though I don't know what you hope to gain with this.  It's highly doubtful
that you are saturating your bus with the cards you have now.

>  How about if two or more of the same type of adapter, say 2 AHA1542C ?
>Can I say something like :
>
>controller      aha1    at isa? port "IO_AHA1" bio irq etc ... ?

See above.



Nate

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