For SUPER EIDE GEEKS, not me yet, you use a PCI-PCI bridge expansion card
system plus passive back planes.
If one really wanted to get stupid.........
Using the ABIT BP6 with 4 channels on board for 8 devices, plus five (5)
more ide-pci cards for 10 more channels or 20 devices, one could get a
total of 28 devices..........why.
There are several nice ide-pci cards out there, pick one.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi,
> Just a quick question - I've used all four devices on my motherboard's
> IDE controller and I know linux can handle something like 20 IDE devices
> now. Basically, can someone tell me which PCI (or ISA) IDE expansion
> card to get. The machine has an ethernet card on IRQ 11, Two SBs (on
> IRQs 5 & 9) and the rest is kinda standard. What I want is a cheap card
> which will let me add 4 (or only 2) more IDE devices to my system and
> which will work with the described setup and Linux 2.2.12 or later.
> Please don't flame me and tell me to use SCSI. SCSI still aint cheap for
> large storage amounts and IDE may be slower, but on my home PC it is
> sufficient. I only have 17Gb at the moment (10.8Gb +6.4Gb) + an IDE
> CD-ROM and an IDE-CD-RW.
>
> Could someone also tell me how the hell you can have 20 IDE devices -
> how do you deal with the lack of IRQs, etc... - I'm *very* interested!
> :)
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> Jon.
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