What is ata2 ?

[Rob]

--- Clifton Royston wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote:
> 
> > Eventually I would like to achieve this:
> > I have another, very old, PC with following
> > configuration:
> >   IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs
> >   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.
> 
> I don't think it'll work for that - too bastardized.
> I don't know what they did but they might have
> changed the pinout or something so that it
> was only compatible with Creative CD-ROMs. In the
> best case, if you got it to work, it would be
> deathly slow.

Too bad, as the soundcard itself seems to be
recognized properly by 5-Stable:

 # kldload snd_sb16
 # kldstat
 Id Refs Address    Size     Name
  1    9 0xc0400000 275764   kernel
  2    2 0xc0676000 18a44    miibus.ko
  3    1 0xc068f000 6b98     if_rl.ko
  4    1 0xc0696000 b1b8     random.ko
  5    1 0xc1118000 4000     snd_sb16.ko
  6    2 0xc111c000 18000    sound.ko
  7    1 0xc113b000 4000     snd_sbc.ko

 # cat /dev/sndstat 
 FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
 Installed devices:
 pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.13> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5
       bufsz 4096d kld snd_sb16 (1p/1r/0v channels
       duplex default)

Anyway, if I buy a PCI IDE controller, would that
work easily with FreeBSD (4- or 5-Stable alike) ?

Thanks,
Rob.

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