Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:39:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is ata2 ? Message-ID: <20050427063933.34691.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> wrote: > Rob wrote: > > >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? > > You have more than 2 controllers. A whole dmesg > would help, or just tell us your make/model of > your motherboard. 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 11778458 100 stray irq0 0 0 irq1: atkbd0 1 0 stray irq1 0 0 irq3: sio1 258 0 stray irq3 0 0 irq4: sio0 5 0 stray irq4 0 0 irq5: 0 0 stray irq5 0 0 irq6: 0 0 stray irq6 0 0 irq7: 0 0 stray irq7 0 0 irq8: rtc 15075329 128 stray irq8 0 0 irq9: 0 0 stray irq9 0 0 irq10: ata2 0 0 stray irq10 0 0 irq11: rl0 uhci0 211528 1 stray irq11 0 0 irq12: 0 0 stray irq12 0 0 irq13: npx0 1 0 stray irq13 0 0 irq14: ata0 495290 4 stray irq14 0 0 irq15: ata1 46 0 stray irq15 0 0 Total 27560916 234 Does that tell more about the ata2 controller on this PC? Thanks, Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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