From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 17:41:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3B2155CF for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id RAA28297; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA16501; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:34:42 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA12877; Thu, 5 Aug 99 17:38:17 PDT Message-Id: <37AA2E78.2AFF095E@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:38:16 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Cc: Vince Vielhaber , Biju Susmer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? References: <37A94F66.C9698865@tig.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris wrote: > > When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a > Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary > master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my > CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never got > a straight answer as to why it didnt work and why it shouldnt be changed > or supported. I did get an answer from someone that said that it should > work in 3.0+, I tried and it didnt work. *shrug* probably just my mobo > and FBSD didnt like each other in this regard. Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message