Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:46:50 -0500 From: Michael Hughes <mdh@jcn.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is ata2 ? Message-ID: <20050430084650.1c3f97fd@logcabin.hem.com> In-Reply-To: <20050428144801.77074.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050428144801.77074.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com>
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The sounds cards IDE interface is not a standard IDE. It is for Creative's own CD-ROM drive. The was a drive matcd that would work with these drives, but I don't see it in the LINT config file. On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Michael Hughes Log Home living is the best mdh@jcn.net Temperatures: Outside: 45.8 House: 68.6 Computer room: 69.6
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