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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
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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