Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:32:55 -0400 (EWT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> PCI, ISA, & VLB. The IDE standard allowed for up to four IDE cards in > a system, each capable of having a master and a slave. EIDE uses > simulates the presence of two cards. If you want to reuse those drive > you will have to get either a couple of ISA IDE adapters which can be > configured as teradary or quatrainary (something like that) or a PCI > (maybe ISA too) EIDE card which can be configured to be the third and > fourth chains.
Ah, I see! Thanks for making that clear. I have a spare VLB controller which I am sure can be used as a tertinary/quad? device. I didn't know this was possible; but thanks, now I can kick some serious butt with RAID. Now where did I put it? Oh, I left it in England. :/
> You do not need c0b0t0u0, there isn't that many possible EIDE devices. > /dev/hd[a-h] would do to address the actual device. Add a number to > that to access partitions on a disk. Simple, elegant, intuitive, > backwardly compatable, and not verbosely complex. and if you want a > c0.... type device then c0d0[p0] would do. (c = chain, d = device, p > = partitions if a drive)) But this is complicating the system to fix > something that is not broke. (for EIDE, not SCSI (I do not need flames > here))
c0d0p0 will do fine. It makes logical sense to me now.
Cheers, Alex -- /\_/\ Legalise cannabis now! ( o.o ) Grow some cannabis today! > ^ < Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all.
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