From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 10:39:48 2004 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 10DB216A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:39:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from above.proper.com (above.proper.com [208.184.76.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C406E43D5A for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [10.0.2.2] (adsl-63-202-92-157.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.92.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by above.proper.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0CIdiic098863 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: phoffprop@mail.proper.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <002c01c3d8ed$57300740$0b00000a@stjames.net> References: <002c01c3d8ed$57300740$0b00000a@stjames.net> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:39:09 -0800 To: "FreeBSD-questions" From: Paul Hoffman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: How do I add a third ATA controller to 4.8? 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: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:39:48 -0000 At 9:20 AM +0000 1/12/04, Martyn Hill wrote: >Paul > >I notice that the kernel config file you present is using the "old" device >ata lines - is the ATA controller a particularly old model? > >If not, then the LINT kernel config file shows an alternative, viz > >device ata # just one entry for all ata controllers, no need >to reference IRQs etc... >device atadisk # for your IDE disks >device atapicd # for your CD-ROM like devices > >You should comment out the ata0/ata1 lines before adding the above (and >additionally, remove any "device wd*" lines in that section.) > >Then rebuild your kernel. > >Hope that helps. Thanks to all for the effort, but it didn't. The dmesg output still shows only ata0 and ata1. I am starting to believe that the problem lies in the Dell, not in FreeBSD. I'll work around this by attaching the drive to the second IDE controller and later experiment with adding a third controller on the PCI bus. --Paul Hoffman