> > if not /dev/IDE/[0-7]. There is also only 4 possible standard serial ports
2.1.11X allows for /dev/IDE/[0-11].......I have gotten 10 IDE devices
running under UP and SMP........
> 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)
With offboard PCI cards bootable and non that use a modified SCSI chipset,
one can add a group of 4 devices at a time using a single interrupt.
> 2) You've omitted partitions/slices from your suggestions. c0b0t0u0 is
> still necessary to refer to the individual partition on that IDE device.
Please look for "IDE-DRIVER Suggested Update" in previous messages.
Cheers,
Andre
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