Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:49:12 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: dburr@borg-cube.com, ssahmed@pathcom.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Promise Ultra ATA 133 PCI card supported? Message-ID: <6295GCZXIGXWPMYXVRDBVTA6JI3YTRPO.3d8a7088@sparky> In-Reply-To: <15753.12303.55227.960382@zeus.asci>
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9/18/2002 10:01:53 PM, "S. Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com> wrote: >>>>>> "DB" == Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com> writes: > DB> Hello world. I'm about to add a 3rd hard drive to my system. > DB> Since my motherboard's built in IDE ports are all in use, I will > DB> need to add a PCI IDE controller card to the mix in order to get > DB> this to fly. I have a Maxtor-labeled (but the card and chip is > DB> made by Promise) Ultra ATA 133 PCI controller. Is this card > DB> supported by FreeBSD? (Running 4.7-PRERELEASE, cvs'd at Sun Sep > DB> 8 02:42 PM PDT)? > DB> > >Yes, it is: > >ssahmed@phoenix:[~]$ dmesg |grep ata >atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> at device 7.1 on pci0 >atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS >atapci1: <Promise TX2 ATA133 controller> port 0xe800- 0xe80f,0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe007,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807 mem 0xda000000-0xda003fff irq 15 at device 13.0 on pci0 >ata2: at 0xd800 on atapci1 >ata3: at 0xe000 on atapci1 >ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 >ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 >ad4: 19595MB <MAXTOR 6L020L1> [39813/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA133 >ad6: 38172MB <MAXTOR 6L040L2> [77557/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA133 >ssahmed@phoenix:[~]$ uname -a >FreeBSD phoenix.asci 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7- PRERELEASE #0: Wed Sep 4 23:18:40 EDT 2002 ssahmed@phoenix.asci:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > >-- >Salman Ahmed >ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com But before you run out and buy a new card - do you have room for another drive on your current cable(s), or ? If so, you might try hooking up the new drive on the cable to see if it works, and only springing for the new card if it doesn't. Or you might think about buying a cable with additional connectors. Either way would be cheaper than a controller card (though of course an Ultra ATA 133 controller card is a nice thing to have:). Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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