Re: Limit of 6 IDE interfaces?

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:49:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Craig Whitmore wrote:

> The bios when you set up IDE drives only gives an option of 2 IDE channels..
> How can
> you set the others up? Or an I asking a stupid question?

You dont. The kernel autodetects. The only problem here is that you
couldn't boot off one of those later controlers.. In fact, I often turn
off IDE drives in bios (cept boot drive) because Linux's autodetect code
does better then many bioses.

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