Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-05-01 Thread Joel
Eventually I would like to achieve this: I have another, very old, PC with following configuration: IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs IDE/1 (on motherboard) -broken- I like to use this soundcard/IDE controller for adding a CDrom to this

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-05-01 Thread Rob
Joel wrote: Yet another question could be how much the lab wants to invest on a slow motherboard with broken curcuitry (which might also depend on what borked the on-board ATA controller). Although it's going a bit out-of-topic, the situation is that the Windows desease is very effective

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Hughes
The sounds cards IDE interface is not a standard IDE. It is for Creative's own CD-ROM drive. The was a drive matcd that would work with these drives, but I don't see it in the LINT config file. On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel wrote: For now,

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-28 Thread Rob
Joel wrote: For now, another, possibly silly, question: If this is indeed a multifunctional multimedia card, then does that mean I can connect another harddisk to this card, and it will be recognized as a harddisk on ata2 ? Very likely. However, if freeBSD does what some other OSses do when

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-28 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote: OK, I have opened the box and had a look at this ISA card. It's indeed a sound card, Creative SB16/SB32. But it also has one IDE Interface connector, which apparently is the ata2 device. Wow, this *is* an old machine! So, I thought,

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-28 Thread Rob Bowers
I don't think it'll work for that - too bastardized. I don't know what they did but they might have changed the pinout or something so that it was only compatible with Creative CD-ROMs. In the best case, if you got it to work, it would be deathly slow. -- Clifton I can't imagine why you

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-28 Thread Rob
--- Clifton Royston wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote: Eventually I would like to achieve this: I have another, very old, PC with following configuration: IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs IDE/1 (on motherboard) -broken- I like to use this

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-28 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Rob wrote: --- Clifton Royston wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote: Eventually I would like to achieve this: I have another, very old, PC with following configuration: IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-27 Thread Rob
Joel wrote: I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ... ata2: Generic ESDI/IDE/ATA controller at port 0x36e-0x36f,0x168-0x16f irq

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-27 Thread Rob
--- jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob wrote: Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-27 Thread Joel
It's also been suggested that this may be on a multifunction card, which would typically be a multimedia card. OK, I will soon shut the system down and inspect the inside of the box. Was going to complain that you hadn't done that earlier, but maybe you've been

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-27 Thread jason henson
Don't know the details of my motherboard. Whole dmesg output is here: http://surfion.snu.ac.kr/~lahaye/dmesg.boot BTW, vmstat -ia might be usefull, most likely not. interrupt total rate ???0 0 irq0: clk

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-27 Thread jason henson
Rob wrote: --- jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob wrote: Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-27 Thread Joel
It's also been suggested that this may be on a multifunction card, which would typically be a multimedia card. OK, I will soon shut the system down and inspect the inside of the box. Was going to complain that you hadn't done that earlier, but maybe you've

What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ... ata2: Generic ESDI/IDE/ATA controller at port 0x36e-0x36f,0x168-0x16f irq

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Joel
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hi, I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rob
Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ...

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Bowers
I'm real new to the FreeBSD world so I might be way off on this. Any chance it's an IDE controller on a soundcard? Probably ISA by what i'm reading below. R. Bowers Rob wrote: Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:13 pm, Rob Bowers wrote: I'm real new to the FreeBSD world so I might be way off on this. Any chance it's an IDE controller on a soundcard? Probably ISA by what i'm reading below. Some of the motherboards have 4 IDE controllers. The last 2 are frequently RAIDable.

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Joel
I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ... ata2: Generic ESDI/IDE/ATA controller at port

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread jason henson
Rob wrote: Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on