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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!tau.uac.net!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!sgigate.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] Multiple 2940's in 2.1.0 Date: 15 May 1996 16:24:55 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4nd0gn$6r8@sidhe.hsc.fr> References: <4nargu$r0u@spock.dis.cccd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <4nargu$r0u@spock.dis.cccd.edu>, Michael S. Peer <mpeer@cccd.edu> wrote: > 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? If you have two 2940, the first one will be called ahc0 and the second one the obvious ahc1. > I was also told to take the tape drive off these controlers, and I would > like to add a CD-ROM eventually. Could I also add an adaptec 1540 > controller for CD-ROM and Tape with the two PCI SCSI controllers in the > same system? With two SCSI controller, why would you need to add a third one ? Just hook the tape or the CD on one of the SCSI controllers... Anyway, of course you can have three SCSI controllers in one machine :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-