From: jim mckie jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: Adding pcdist to CD-ROM file system?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:49:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19951210154957.a-vJMeDCjTcQxdkcWz6-pTYmaS0QzitTn8gWMsRcTfc@z> (raw)
The slave/master jumper may have been a factor. Early ATA 'standards' (for
want of a better word) forbade a slave without a master. The later ones say
it's possible but do not sanction it. The way the ATA driver currently looks
for drives is to use the 'execute device diagnostics' command then look at the
status for the master and then the slave. Because of problems with some
controllers i found it not advisable to try look at the status of the slave if
the master doesn't exist.
The mapping between ATA controller number, port and drive number is fixed:
primary port 0x3F0 drives 0, 1
secondary port 0x1F0 drives 2, 3
tertiary port 0x1E8 drives 4, 5
quaternary port 0x168 drives 6, 7
This means there can be 'holes' in the drive name space.
Although it is part of the ATA driver, ATAPI drives are named differently
to not confuse them with hard drives. For example, with one hard drive on
the primary and a CD-ROM on the secondary the drives are named
/dev/hd0disk
/dev/atapi2disk
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1995-12-10 15:49 jim [this message]
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