Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:45:03 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA on a Cabriolet? Message-ID: <20021122224502.GH24783@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <877kf51e8f.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> References: <874ra934yu.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> <20021122203006.B17435@freebie.xs4all.nl> <877kf51e8f.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net>
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:33:36PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-11-22T19:30:06Z, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes: > > > My guess is you need to build a kernel with something like: > > > > device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 > > That did it! Out of curiosity, where did you get the port and irq values? > Are those common for Alphas, or did I miss something that I should have > read? The ISA components have same values as they have on x86 machines. > > Can you experiment a bit with this and let me/the list know? If you can > > get something working I will update the Alphas-specific docs. > > It seems to be completely working. I disklabeled, newfsed, and mounted an > IDE drive with no logged errors. On a related note, while I didn't expect > this implementation to be as fast as the ATA/100 channels on my i386 > motherboard, I didn't really appreciate how glacially slow it would turn out > to be: Well it's ISA after all. If you want it for everyday use I would suggest adding a PCI IDE card or using a SCSI drive. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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