Re: Limit of 6 IDE interfaces?

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:33:25 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> > 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?
>
> 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.

One limit is likely going to be available IRQ's in the system.

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