Hi there Soeren,
using parallel ATA drive at our new TYAN motherboard I see
root@gwhy:/usr/src# atacontrol mode 0
atacontrol: Invalid device 0
the same for other channel-related commands such as
root@gwhy:/usr/src# atacontrol detach 1
atacontrol: Invalid channel 1
additional info:
root@gwhy:/usr/src# grep ata /var/run/dmesg.boot
atapci0: <nVidia nForce4 UDMA133 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe800-0xe80f at device 6.0 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
atapci1: <nVidia nForce4 SATA150 controller> port
0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xd400-0xd40f mem
0xfebfc000-0xfebfcfff irq 21 at device 7.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
atapci2: <nVidia nForce4 SATA150 controller> port
0x9e0-0x9e7,0xbe0-0xbe3,0x960-0x967,0xb60-0xb63,0xc000-0xc00f mem
0xfebfb000-0xfebfbfff irq 22 at device 8.0 on pci0
ata4: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2
ata5: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2
ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800BB-00CAA1 17.07W17> at ata0-master UDMA100
root@gwhy:/usr/src# uname -a
FreeBSD gwhy.rinet.ru 6.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 #0: Mon Aug 22 10:50:05 MSD
2005 marck@gwhy.rinet.ru:/usr/obj/lh/src/sys/GWH_AMD64 amd64
root@gwhy:/usr/src# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
Master: ad0 <WDC WD800BB-00CAA1/17.07W17> ATA/ATAPI revision 5
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 1:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 2:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 3:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 4:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 5:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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