Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 1998 07:51:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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I've had in the past, and working under Linux and Win95, three IDE controllers, hence giving me 6 IDE devices. 2 of the IDE chains were on my MB and the third on my SB32, which I don't believe was EIDE, but I'm not positive that makes a difference. I also have a configuration option on my SB32 to permit it to be the 4th IDE chain in my system, and as such had I two of them I believe I could have 4 IDE chains, giving me 8 devices. I've yet to see anything that would go past that though.
I don't believe the bus architecture makes any difference though, just a matter of using the four (I would guess spec'ed) IDE base address places, which I can't remember off the top of my head at the moment, and having enough IRQ's availible.
Stephen
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote: > > > This definitely has some useful qualities, however some things do not need > [ snip ] > > if not /dev/IDE/[0-7]. There is also only 4 possible standard serial ports > [ snip ] > > I have two things to comment upon: > > 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) > > 2) You've omitted partitions/slices from your suggestions. c0b0t0u0 is > still necessary to refer to the individual partition on that IDE device. > > Cheers, > Alex > -- > /\_/\ Legalise cannabis now! > ( o.o ) Grow some cannabis today! > > ^ < Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all. > > http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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