On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:43, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I have a Dell 600SC that has three ATA controllers > on the motherboard, and I'm running 4.8 quite happily on it. The > GENERIC kernel has the following: > > device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 > device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 >
I gather that these lines or for legacy isa based controllers and have little relevance for reasonably modern machines. A single line: device ata should cope with all the ATA controllers on a current model PC. > Since I didn't know the irq used by the third controller (it's not > listed in their documentation, of course!), I blithely tried adding: > > device ata2 at isa? port IO_WD3 > > However, when rebuilding this kernel, I get the following error: > > cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline > -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. > -I../../../include -I../../contrib/ipfilter -D_KERNEL -include > opt_global.h -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ioconf.c > ioconf.c:48: `IO_WD3' undeclared here (not in a function) > ioconf.c:48: initializer element is not constant > ioconf.c:48: (near initialization for `ata2_resources[1].u.longval') > *** Error code 1 > I suspect you are being too clever; the GENERIC kernel will possibly find it. (No personal experience with 3 or more ATA controllers) Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
