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From: bcaruthe@us.oracle.com (Bruce Caruthers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] 2xIDE+SCSI question
Date: 2 Nov 1994 05:55:50 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, Calif.
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Message-ID: <3979l6$ng3@dcsun4.us.oracle.com>
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Hi all.
I have read the threads on SCSI with two IDE drives, so I know that
the current versions of *BSD require my adding and removing the
second IDE drive from my CMOS when I switch between the OS's on my
machine (IDE: 345MB <DOS/Win31> + 256MB <WinNT35>, SCSI: 1.2GB
<FreeBSD/DOS/Plan9>).
What I was wondering about is, what are the sources of this
limitation? Is this a set-in-stone (or so much effort that it might
as well be) architecture problem on the PC, or has it just not been
implemented?
Thanks,
-bkc
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Bruce Caruthers bcaruthe@Oracle.Com bkc@cs.Princeton.Edu
"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy,
it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that
you want its full attention." -- Kelvin Throop, "Analog" Dec 1984