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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!ames!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.erg.cuhk.hk!usenet From: CHAN Yiu Wah <clarence> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Two hard disk controllers ?? Date: 26 Jul 1995 01:24:25 GMT Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3v45g9$g8s@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> References: <3v22ai$11j@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc16.cs.cuhk.hk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3C sun4m) To: gis83812@cis.nctu.edu.tw X-URL: news:3v22ai$11j@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw It is possible to add another IDE controller for adding two more hard disks. You have get a controller that can be set the io address to 0x170 (check against you boot mesg using dmesg). FreeBSD supports the 2nd controller. Hope this help. Clarence CHAN clarence@cs.cuhk.hk gis83812@cis.nctu.edu.tw (I-Fei Tsai) 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 ? >Any response will be appreciated. > >-- Ming