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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] boot from: in install
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:22:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209131821430.16640-100000@einstein.ssz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b178995da5f433dc8197d24e99aad41@plan9.bell-labs.com>


On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> If you had four IDE controllers, they'd be
> named sdC, sdD, sdE, and sdF.  That's different
> from having four drives on the first controller,
> which is how you get up to sdC3.

True enough, but there would still be only one (1)
primary drive, the rest would be slaves. That was
the technical point I was dancing around with the
wording of the previous statement.

The question is not how did you get four primary
drives but how did you get three slaves....


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-13 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-13 12:29 Russ Cox
2002-09-13 23:22 ` Jim Choate [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-12 14:14 Russ Cox
2002-09-13 12:13 ` Jim Choate
2002-09-12  8:49 Joel Salomon

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