From: acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) Subject: 4 IDE HDD controller cards Date: 9 Jun 1993 20:10:38 GMT
Greetings:
Lately, I've started having a problem as my LINUX stuff keeps getting
larger and larger. I can't imagine I'm the only one
with this problem. I guess I need to get some more hard disk, but
already have 2 200 MB IDE drives. Using the ususal plan, I'd have to
take one out and replace it with a larger one; pretty costly. Recently
I have started seeing ads in computer rags announcing the availability
of IDE controller cards that support up to 4 IDE hard drives. The ones
I have seen have all been caching controllers (not a bad thing in itself),
and some have I/O stuff too. Has anyone tried to use one of these
with LINUX ? I looked in the hardware list and didn't see anything
obviously listed (but I could have missed it). Does anyone know how
these things work ? Even if the additional HD's might not be accessable
in LINUX, it could still be a great thing. Just put DOS stuff on the
drives you can't get to. If it won't work as-is, would it be a big
deal to support? I'm not the greatest kernel programmer, but could
hack around.
If anyone else wants to check this out, a good add to start with is
from JDR. Supports up to 4 IDE hdd's, 2 Fdd's, 16MB ram cache, 16 bit
bus, up to 16MB/sec transfer,2S, 1P I/O.
If anyone has any info or experience, please email me. I appreciate it.
Andy Cook
andy@ivana.mit.edu