>On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
>> This definitely has some useful qualities, however some things do not
need
>[ snip ]
>> if not /dev/IDE/[0-7]. There is also only 4 possible standard serial
ports
>[ snip ]
>
>I have two things to comment upon:
>
>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)
>
Both. You just need a card or cards that possition its IDE chains as the
terandery and quatrainary ones.
>2) You've omitted partitions/slices from your suggestions. c0b0t0u0 is
>still necessary to refer to the individual partition on that IDE device.
>
No I haven't just left it out. Add a partition number to the above or a 'p'
+ a partition number. Or even better keep /dev/hd[a-h]. No need to change
as there can only be 8 devices.
>Cheers,
>Alex
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