Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: rees@ddcom.co.jp Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is ata2 ? Message-ID: <20050427025018.5083.qmail@web54003.mail.yahoo.com>
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Joel wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) > Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> 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
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