Re: Limit of 6 IDE interfaces?

Craig Whitmore (lennon@igrin.co.nz)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:30:00 +1200

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?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Limit of 6 IDE interfaces?

>> Is this a physical limit of PC architecture or simply a driver
>> limit?
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>Neither... channel can have two IDE devices, most controllers have
>two channels. You can have multiple controllers.
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>> I have 2 onboard UDMA controllers, and 4 PCI slots. I can put 4
>> Promise Ultra33 controllers in this PC. Is there any way to use
>> them all?
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>I don't know about all of them... I think there is a driver limit of
>16 or so in 2.2.x and 8 in 2.0.x. I think it should work... I think
>Mark Lord has done this and worse.
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