From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 14:48:02 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 9EBA816A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web54005.mail.yahoo.com (web54005.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 185F443D48 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:48:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 77077 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2005 14:48:01 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=iJbxbmBjrBBHwVBBU+QVmwG5H1CO0c/90Dyok1P7sE6LExaLH94wWmvRgtrNGeivyUAgmE4BwVrMZONq0yz+MKV3y5wGzcO5VhcQvuCWLvN7aXH8BXGsrBQh6FU4Ai+6fnXkmDHjwpfULH56NNKOFCxhTszX2YdTW80WPbRfHcc= ; Message-ID: <20050428144801.77074.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [147.46.44.181] by web54005.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:48:00 PDT Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:48:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob To: rees@ddcom.co.jp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD questions 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: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:48:02 -0000 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/