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