Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:48:00 -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: <20050428144801.77074.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 it sees the added disk, you may find you need > to edit /etc/fstab . 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. So, I thought, let's see how I get this ata2 to work. I disconnected the CDrom cable from the motherboard's IDE, and connected it to this soundcard. Nothing there at bootup; no mentioning of any CDrom in the kernel messages. (To be sure, I reconnected the cable the other way round to the card; same result). Does this ISA/IDE require some other additional tweaks to become operational? The OS is 5-Stable. --- Eventually I would like to achieve this: I have another, very old, PC with following configuration: IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave harddisks IDE/1 (on motherboard) -broken- I like to use this soundcard/IDE controller for adding a CDrom to this very old PC. The OS of this PC is 4-Stable. Thanks for your help! Rob. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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