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From: "Charles Wilkins" <chas@pcscs.com>
To: "Andrzej Krzysztofowicz" <kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: Re: Fw: max number of ide controllers?
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:04:45 -0500
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Here is what worked.

append="ide6=0x168,0x36e,10"

Thanks all for your help.

Merry Christmas : )

> > Charles Wilkins writes:
> > > I have ide.2.2.18.1209.patch applied. The kernel is 2.2.18.
> > > So what is the answer? 4 controllers max or 10 for my kernel?
> > 
> > 10 controllers if you have the IDE patches applied.  4 otherwise.
> 
> Look the source Luck ...
> 
> 2.2.18 ide.c:
> 
> static const byte       ide_hwif_to_major[] = {IDE0_MAJOR, IDE1_MAJOR,
> IDE2_MAJOR, IDE3_MAJOR, IDE4_MAJOR, IDE5_MAJOR };
> 
> 6 otherwise
> 
> Andrzej

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