On Sat, Jul 31, Jonathan C. Masters wrote:
> I hear Linux 2.4 will support 8 IDE controllers. I always thought that
> you could only have 4 IDE drives. Since each controller can have two
> drivers, does this actually mean I can have 16 drives? I say this
> becasue I have 4 drives at present and have no more capacity without
> switching to more expensive SCSI devices. Besides, I need certain IDE
You can have more than 4 EIDE disks even with kernel 2.2.10:
Schnell:/home/dhs/mantel > grep "<4>hd" /var/log/boot.msg
<4>hda: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdb: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdd: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hde: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdf: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdg: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdh: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
Schnell:/home/dhs/mantel > uname -a
Linux Schnell 2.2.10 #1 Wed Jul 28 11:50:56 MEST 1999 i686 unknown
Schnell:/home/dhs/mantel >
> derivers to be added. How would I add the IDE board. I mean, if I add
> another IDE controller board, does it have to be of a certain type/ wont
> it assume the IRQs of the motherboard ones? etc... basically, can I just
> go into my computer store, add a standard 20quid IDE board and it will
> work? Thanks.
>
> (sorry about slight off topicness)
>
> --
> Jonathan C. Masters (jonathan@oxlug.org)
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