Third IDE hard disk

[Søren Schmidt]

Mark wrote:
> Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Steven Hartland wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Find out what the controller is it might not be supported or may
>>>>need compiling into a custom kernel.
>>>
>>>It is a fairly standard onboard Promise 20376 controller. Perhaps I
>>>need to recompile the kernel? Something like: 
>>>
>>>"device ata2 at isa? port IO_WD3 irq 16"
>>
>>You need freebsd-5.x for that to work, the promise pdc203xx chips are
>>not supported by the ATA driver in -stable (and probably wont be)...
> 
> 
> But the PDC 20378 (actually) is not running in SATA mode, but standard ATA 133. Is there no way then I can use it in 'compatibility' mode, or something? Sigh.

The mode doesn't matter the core of the chip logic does.


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-Søren