On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:37:23AM -0500, J Chapman Flack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if I well enough understand ATA topology and the 1.6.2
> attach code to be sure from this dmesg what my topology is.
> 
> This is a Dell Latitude CPi laptop and I have been assuming that the
> burner (in the modular bay) is the second/slave drive off the HDD cable.
> But I notice the dmesg, if I look closely, says wd0 is "channel 0 drive 0"
> and atapibus has attached to "channel 1" - and wd0 and cd0 are at
> pciide0 0:0 and 1:0, respectively.  Does that mean they are *not*
> sharing a cable?

Yes.

> Would it be 0:0 and 0:1 if they were?  I am not sure.

Yes.

you have pciide0:x:y where x is the channel and y the drive on the
channel. In your case, both devices are master on separate channels.

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