On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:17, someone, possibly Ron Andreasen, typed: > I will definately look into this ATA controller you > suggested and see if I can grab one. Will this still > allow me to copy cds on-the-fly?
Absolutely. In the second set-up I sugested (a second ATA controller), each of your devices will be on its own ATA cable. This will allow you to copy CD-to-CD, get faster hard drive-to-hard drive data transfers, and should also help reduce the ever annoying buffer underrun from hard drive to CD. For a complete list of ATA controllers that will work with 5.0-RELEASE, you can check the hardware notes here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-i386.html#AEN33 The reason why your drives would previously have had trouble on the same cable is the same reason I always like to have a second ATA controller in any system with more than two ATA devices. IDE busses (as I pointed out in my previous post) do not interleave like SCSI busses do, so connecting two things to one cable, even though it works fine, should not be done unless you absolutely have to :) With each device on its own cable, all your devices can transfer data at the same time and at maximum bus bandwidth, and conflicts that (still) crop up from time to time between two ATA devices will be eliminated. Any ATA controller that is listed as working in the hardware notes will do nicely for this, so you don't specifically need the CMD649, I sugested it because it "works for me (TM)" You should be able to pick any of these up easily from the local shop or any online PC parts store, many of them for under $25 and even the faster ATA133 ones for under $40. I think you'll enjoy FreeBSD once you get to know it, so go get that controller ASAP. As a side note, once you do have FreeBSD, make sure you recompile your kernel with these: device ata device atapicd device atapicam device scbus device pass device cd These will allow you to access your CD-ROM and CD-R/RW as SCSI devices, which has all kinds of stability and performance benifits that you'll quite like. Remember to still compile atadisk, or you might get a nasty surprise form hard disks :) Have fun Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
