From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 03:44:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB8116A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:44:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D531A43D5D for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:44:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: by malasada.lava.net (Postfix, from userid 102) id 2C867153883; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:44:43 -1000 (HST) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:44:43 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Rob Message-ID: <20050429034441.GA8904@tikitechnologies.com> Mail-Followup-To: Rob , FreeBSD questions References: <20050429023102.15524.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050429023102.15524.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: What is ata2 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:44:44 -0000 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Rob wrote: > --- 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: You could always try... but as I recall you did, and it didn't work. Maybe worth googling for, but if you've got a working PCI slot, a cheap IDE card should be many times faster. The Creative ISA card was designed in an era when a "fast" CD-ROM was 2x, not 52x. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect "I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..." -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair