From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 17:08:34 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 C696A16A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:08:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC4943D5C for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:08:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: by malasada.lava.net (Postfix, from userid 102) id B3D8F153883; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:08:33 -1000 (HST) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:08:33 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Rob Message-ID: <20050428170832.GA8196@tikitechnologies.com> Mail-Followup-To: Rob , FreeBSD questions References: <20050428144801.77074.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050428144801.77074.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 17:08:34 -0000 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote: > 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. Wow, this *is* an old machine! > 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. I never tried running it under any BSD. ISTR that it was a very messed-up IDE interface which only worked with Creative's brand CD-ROMs. I saw a bunch of these back in the day as they were marketed as upgrade kits when CD-ROMs were just hitting mass-market computers, and lots of people wanted to add CD-ROMs and sound to their old computers so they could play games. A soundcard with extra IDE + a CD-ROM got them there, barely. > 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. I don't think it'll work for that - too bastardized. I don't know what they did but they might have changed the pinout or something so that it was only compatible with Creative CD-ROMs. In the best case, if you got it to work, it would be deathly slow. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect "I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..." -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair