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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 09:01:58 +1100
From: "Geoff C. Marshall" <count@ozemail.com.au>
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To: jservice@oht.hydro.on.ca, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: ATAPI CDROM slave on second controller
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jservice@oht.hydro.on.ca wrote:
> 
> My 200 MHz Pentium has two disk controllers (wd0 and wd1) with a hard
> disk
> on wd0 and the cdrom drive as a slave on wd1.  It takes between 20 and
> 30
> seconds to probe and find wd1 and wcd0.  Because of ribbon cable
> lengths and
> the physical layout inside my PC I can't move the cdrom drive cable to
> use the
> first controller.  Is there a boot flag/kernel configuration I can try
> to
> eliminate this long probing delay in FreeBSD v2.2.2?
> 

Err...  There must be, because I don't have the problem.
But that is in 2.2-STABLE (v2.2.5)

On the other hand, while I can get sound out, I can't
play a music CDROM.

I think ATAPI on the slave, second drive might be a
bit broken.  

Anybody else know anything about this ?


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