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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> andy-freebsd@splashground.de writes:
> > ATA channel 1:
> >     Master:      no device present
> >     Slave:  acd0 <20X10/H.DH> ATA/ATAPI rev 0
>
> This is an unsupported configuration.

This is supported by FreeBSD, but not fully supported by the ATA standard.
I use it whenever possible to monitor bitrot in the support.

> > ATA channel 2:
> >     Master:      no device present
> >     Slave:   ad5 <IC35L120AVV207-0/V24OA63A> ATA/ATAPI rev 6
>
> This is an unsupported configuration.

This is supported by FreeBSD, but not fully supported by the ATA standard.
I don't trust the support enough to monitor it for writable devices.

Bruce