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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ASUS T2P4 IDE/SCSI mixed - ordering?
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:19:19 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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References: <8556@news.first.gmd.de>
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To: ralph@first.gmd.de (Ralph Berg)
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <8556@news.first.gmd.de>,
ralph@first.gmd.de (Ralph Berg) writes:
> Already running my system (DOS/WIN3.x/FreeBSD) with SCSI drive
> connected on SC200. Now I would like to add cheap big IDE drives.
>
> If I change the scan order to (SCSI/IDE) , what will be the order
> first all SCSI and then all IDE's (visible for DOS/WIN3.x)?
AFAIK, this is impossible.
> Further, is the FreeBSD ide driver with bus-mastering? Should be for
> performance!
AFAIK no. Nobody's put the effort in.
> Anybody out there any experiences?!
Store things like archives and such on there. Don't use IDE for
/var, /tmp and /usr (or whatever you tend to write to alot).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !