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        The idea is to have Linux installed in the 3rd and  4th HD.    

        Any ideas/suggestions/comments are more than very welcome.

        Many tx in advance
                                Peter

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I'm running 3 drivers from a local bus EIDE controller, 2 EIDE drivers
(1 connor, 1 WD), and 1 IDE drive (WD). Works fine. The first channel
has the 2 WD's on irq 14, and the second channel has the connor on irq
15.  Didn't require a special kernel driver for Linux 1.2.8.

Steve.

: >Hi:
: >  I am trying to install a total of 4 HD (not partitions) into a 486/33
: >using a pair of regular IDE controlers and 4 HDs. Is this possible?? In order
: >to achieve this I was thinking to disable everything (but HD support) on the
: >second controler and at the same time enable it as a secondary controler. Will
: >this work?
: >
: >  The idea is to have Linux installed in the 3rd and  4th HD.    
: >
: >  Any ideas/suggestions/comments are more than very welcome.
: >
: You may have problems with the interrupt line, unless you can
: configure the second controller to use irq 15. I'd suggest buying a
: single controller card with dual IDE or EIDE channels.

: I'm running 3 drivers from a local bus EIDE controller, 2 EIDE drivers
: (1 connor, 1 WD), and 1 IDE drive (WD). Works fine. The first channel
: has the 2 WD's on irq 14, and the second channel has the connor on irq
: 15.  Didn't require a special kernel driver for Linux 1.2.8.

 think I can handle changing my intrupts on my controllers, but these are
both not EIDE controllers.  My BIOS will not recignise more then 2 hard
drives, how do I tell Linux that they exist?  

(If somneone knows the answer for OS/2 as well that would be good, I will pro
bolly run OS/2 on some partition)