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From: pmorin@qbc.clic.net (Patrick A. Morin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Multiple 2940's in 2.1.0
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:37:34 GMT
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mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael S. Peer) wrote:

>This may seem like a simple question, but before I go off and spend a lots of 
>money...

>I have a 90MHz pentium news server and would like to split the I/O to the 
>disks across 2 adaptec PCI 2940 controllers and add more disks to further 
>split up the I/O.  I have a PCI SCSI in the host going to 2 3GB hard disks 
>now.  Can I add a second PCI controller?  What is it called when I 
>reconfigure the kernel, then again do I have to?

I am using 2 2940 in one server right now, I am very happy with the
results. You should not need to reconfigure the kernel, it should
auto-detect it.

>Thanks in advance,

>Michael Peer
>e-mail:  mpeer@cccd.edu
>www:	 http://pioneer.gwc.cccd.edu

>please cc my e-mail for obivious reasons!

Patrick