>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........
>
Thats still to few to justify a change to the more cryptic
/dev/ide/hd/c0t0d0u0p0 (whatever). Ok /dev/hd[a-l].
>> 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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