From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 08:23:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9131916A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:23:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from proxy.ddcom.co.jp (proxy.ddcom.co.jp [211.121.191.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88BE243D5F for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:23:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rees@ddcom.co.jp) Received: (qmail 7434 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2005 08:35:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO matthew) (10.10.10.11) by mail.ddcom.local with SMTP; 27 Apr 2005 08:35:17 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:23:23 +0900 From: Joel To: FreeBSD questions In-Reply-To: <20050427063117.32474.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050427063117.32474.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <20050427171654.7422.REES@ddcom.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.06 Subject: Re: What is ata2 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:23:23 -0000 > > 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 in the middle of a long build world or something. > 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 it sees the added disk, you may find you need to edit /etc/fstab . > And connect my speakers at the speaker connectors > and play music with the very same card? Maybe. Probably. Won't know unless you try it. > And, eh, this is a rather old PC. > Dmesg says: > CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron > (239.83-MHz 686-class CPU) I kind of expected that. -- Joel Rees digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** **