Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:43:26 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Andre M. Hedrick" <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> > if not /dev/IDE/[0-7]. There is also only 4 possible standard serial ports
2.1.11X allows for /dev/IDE/[0-11].......I have gotten 10 IDE devices running under UP and SMP........
> 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)
With offboard PCI cards bootable and non that use a modified SCSI chipset, one can add a group of 4 devices at a time using a single interrupt.
> 2) You've omitted partitions/slices from your suggestions. c0b0t0u0 is > still necessary to refer to the individual partition on that IDE device.
Please look for "IDE-DRIVER Suggested Update" in previous messages.
Cheers, Andre
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