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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Two hard disk controllers ?? Date: 26 Jul 1995 15:33:13 +0200 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3v5g6p$lta@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <3v22ai$11j@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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? As long as your hardware supports a secondary address *and* a secondary IRQ, yes. (Most cards have the former, but lack the latter however.) >If so, how to setup the interrupt number and I/O base address as configured >in the kernel config file ? 2.0.5R ships with it. It's even in 1.1.5.1's LINT file: controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)