From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 22 14:45:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638D937B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E1C43EAA for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAMMj9sP058627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:45:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMMj7Od035450 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:45:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMMj6uC026399; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:45:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAMMj4YJ026398; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:45:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:45:03 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA on a Cabriolet? Message-ID: <20021122224502.GH24783@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <874ra934yu.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> <20021122203006.B17435@freebie.xs4all.nl> <877kf51e8f.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877kf51e8f.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:33:36PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-11-22T19:30:06Z, Wilko Bulte writes: > > > My guess is you need to build a kernel with something like: > > > > device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 > > That did it! Out of curiosity, where did you get the port and irq values? > Are those common for Alphas, or did I miss something that I should have > read? The ISA components have same values as they have on x86 machines. > > Can you experiment a bit with this and let me/the list know? If you can > > get something working I will update the Alphas-specific docs. > > It seems to be completely working. I disklabeled, newfsed, and mounted an > IDE drive with no logged errors. On a related note, while I didn't expect > this implementation to be as fast as the ATA/100 channels on my i386 > motherboard, I didn't really appreciate how glacially slow it would turn out > to be: Well it's ISA after all. If you want it for everyday use I would suggest adding a PCI IDE card or using a SCSI drive. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message