Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:44:43 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is ata2 ? Message-ID: <20050429034441.GA8904@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <20050429023102.15524.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050429023102.15524.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Rob wrote:
> --- Clifton Royston wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote:
> >
> > > Eventually I would like to achieve this:
> > > I have another, very old, PC with following
> > > configuration:
> > > IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs
> > > 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.
>
> Too bad, as the soundcard itself seems to be
> recognized properly by 5-Stable:
You could always try... but as I recall you did, and it didn't work.
Maybe worth googling for, but if you've got a working PCI slot, a cheap
IDE card should be many times faster. The Creative ISA card was
designed in an era when a "fast" CD-ROM was 2x, not 52x.
-- Clifton
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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
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