dmesg for ATA devices (SATA)

[Søren Schmidt]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I adjusted my BIOS (SOYO Dragon Platinum) to enable only the Primary IDE 
> + SATA and now I can see all drives on FreeBSD-5-CURRENT.  However, the 
> dmesg output looks a little weird:
> 
> ad2: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master SATA150
> ad3: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata1-slave SATA150
> ad4: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150
> ad6: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150
> 
> All 4 drives are plugged in to the Silicon Image controller (4 ports).

Looks a bit wierd, but as I said last time I need a *full* dmesg to be 
able to tell.

> I'm of course happy to install a PCI-based SATA controller, once I'm 
> certain about which is best recommended for FreeBSD-5.  The jury seems 
> out on Highpoint and Promise.  Anyone care to comment?

Promise is the choice IMO.

> The dmesg output should probably read master/slave master/slave... ?

Depends on controller type and setup, from the above 4 lines noone can 
tell you what you should have.

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-Søren