Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:00:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jin Guojun[DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/39449: wierd ata status Message-ID: <200206182200.g5IM09b16668@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/39449; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jin Guojun[DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/39449: wierd ata status Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:52:46 -0700 Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Jin Guojun wrote: > > > > IDE controller 1 has been disabled at both BIOS and kernel configuration, > > and kernel config says: > > config> di ata1 > > No such device: ata1 > > You cant disable PCI devices here, only ISA devices.. I believe that 4.5-RELEASE or earlier FreeBSD releases do this, so we can use the IRQ 15 for another NIC. > > but ata1 still shows up during the boot. > > What is the real story -- is ata1 really configured or not? > > It is configured if the HW is present, which it almost always will > be on most modern systems. This is needed for the hotswap functionality, > as you need access to the controller to be able to attach a new device. Not clear what you imply to hotswap. It seems to me, the hotswap is meaningful to external devices, typically SCSI or RAID, but not an internal onboard IDE controller with only two devices can be attached. > -Søren -- ------------ Jin Guojun ----------- v --- j_guojun@lbl.gov --- Distributed Systems Department http://www.itg.lbl.gov/~jin M/S 50B-2239 Ph#:(510) 486-7531 Fax: 486-6363 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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