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
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