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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
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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
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> 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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