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. Now I see 2 IDE and a SATA. I haven't purchased one of the SATA's. IIRC, the high rate ATA's want one HD per controller. That is how my systems are configured. Kent > > 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 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 10 on isa0 > >>>ad0: 6149MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A/A0A.0D00> > >>> [13328/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > >>>ad1: 4892MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL EL5.1A/A08.1100> > >>> [10602/15/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 > >>>acd0: CDROM <GCR-8521B/1.02> at ata1-master PIO4 > >>> > >>>What is so special about this particular PC, that > >>>it has an ata2, unlike all other PCs I have? > >>> > >>>Can I add more than 4 disks (2 masters + 2 slaves) > >>>to this PC? Or is this ata2 for something else? > >> > >>From here, with the limited information you've > >>provided, I'm guessing you can, if you have the > >>cables and the spare power connectors. > > > >I'm quite keen on trying to understand this. > >So let me try to provide more information below. > > > >As above lines show, the ata2 controller is on > >interrupt 10: > > > > # vmstat -i > > interrupt total rate > > irq0: clk 10392173 100 > > irq1: atkbd0 1 0 > > irq3: sio1 219 0 > > irq4: sio0 1 0 > > irq8: rtc 13301014 128 > > irq11: rl0 uhci0 187119 1 > > irq13: npx0 1 0 > > irq14: ata0 491426 4 > > irq15: ata1 46 0 > > Total 24372000 234 > > > >But interrupt 10 is not there !?! > > > > # atacontrol list > > ATA channel 0: > > Master: ad0 <QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A/A0A.0D00> > > ATA/ATAPI revision 4 > > Slave: ad1 <QUANTUM FIREBALL EL5.1A/A08.1100> > > ATA/ATAPI revision 4 > > ATA channel 1: > > Master: acd0 <GCR-8521B/1.02> ATA/ATAPI revision 0 > > Slave: no device present > > ATA channel 2: > > Master: no device present > > Slave: no device present > > > >---------------------- > > > >You also mentioned USB possibility: > > # grep -i usb /var/run/dmesg.boot > > uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> > > port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0 > > usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> > > on uhci0 > > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > > > > > >What would you conclude from this? > >Is this ata2 another IDE controller, so that I can > >add 6 (instead of the normal 4) harddisks/cdroms etc. > >to this computer? > > > >Thanks, > >Rob. > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"