Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:35:41 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: "atacontrol info" isn't working here Message-ID: <20050811043541.GS45385@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <20050808183610.C55885D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <42F749C5.3010308@rfc2549.org> <20050808183610.C55885D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Hi, [ Cc'ing -doc@, so I put a little history from the thread in this mail ] > > > > >I can use "list", "mode" and "cap" commands from atacontrol(8), but I > > > > >can't use "info". > > > > > > > > > >%%% > > > > > jarjarbinks:root# atacontrol list > > > > > ATA channel 0: > > > > > Master: ad0 <TOSHIBA MK8025GAS/KA023A> ATA/ATAPI revision 6 > > > > > Slave: acd0 <MATSHITAUJ-845D/D100> ATA/ATAPI revision 6 > > > > > ATA channel 1: > > > > > Master: no device present > > > > > Slave: no device present > > > > > jarjarbinks:root# atacontrol info 0 > > > > > atacontrol: Invalid channel 0 > > > > > jarjarbinks:root# atacontrol info 1 > > > > > atacontrol: Invalid channel 1 > > > > >%%% > > > > > > > > > > > >for me atacontrol info ata0 works :) > > > > > >Thanks for your very quick answer. I will send a patch to make the > > >manual page more explicit for dumb peoples like me. > > > > > Well it took me ten minutes too. Because that one is not obvious at all. > > But I needed my cdrom (hotswap ide) and did not want to reboot. > > I sent in a patch to the man page when this change was committed by sos@, > but the man page has never been updated. I made the mistake of just > posting and copying sos@. I should have put it in a PR. Kevin, no news since then. I made a patch for the manpage which is actually clearly wrong : %%% The channel argument is the number of the ATA channel on which to operate. %%% The ``channel'' argument is the name of the ata(4) device and not only its number. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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