Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) | Date | 6 Aug 1998 23:23:38 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808061045260.1824-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk> By author: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 1) I didn't know one could have more than 4 EIDE devices. For which bus > architecture is this true for? PCI or ISA? How does this works? (I'm just > technically curious since I've got all 4 EIDE devices in my system and > have three more hard disks going begging that I'd love to reuse) >
Any; you just need more than 2 IDE controllers. Most BIOSes don't support booting of any more than the first two or four disks, though.
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