From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] boot from: in install In-Reply-To: <0b178995da5f433dc8197d24e99aad41@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:22:55 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ea9e9400-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.... -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, ravage@ssz.com we see them as we are. www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------