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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Two hard disk controllers ??
Date: 25 Jul 1995 09:29:55 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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I-Fei Tsai (gis83812@cis.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:

: I am running FreeBSD 2.0 on my 386DX (ISA bus).
: I have one HD control card with two IDE hard disks (one master CONNER,
: one slave MAXTOR), but they are almost full. Is it possible to have
: another HD control card and add two IDE hard disks to my 386 box?
: If so, how to setup the interrupt number and I/O base address as configured
: in the kernel config file ?

if you use different port adreses and irq's it should work (look into the
LINT file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf) for wdc0 and wdc1 for the adresses and
irq's

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