From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 08:50:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA13315 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 08:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.Colorado.EDU (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA13310 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 08:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id JAA19211; Thu, 16 May 1996 09:45:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <319B4DB2.4AF@Colorado.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 09:45:54 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth J Monville CC: crosswjo@cs.orst.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0-R Cannot Detect Secondary EIDE Channel... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I couldn't get mine working no matter where I put the CD-ROM drive until I reconfigured the kernel using options ATAPI_STATIC (as well as options ATAPI). Now it works just fine configured as: Primary master 540M HD Primary slave 1.2G HD Secondary master ATAPI CD-ROM Secondary slave nothing wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 515MB (1056384 sectors), 1048 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): wd1: 1222MB (2503872 sectors), 2484 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr wcd0: 299Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 255 volume levels, ejectable tray wcd0: no disc inside, unlocked Kenneth J Monville wrote: > > I have found through trial and error that the only way to get 2 hard > drives and an atapi cd-rom is to have the cd-rom on the Master slave. > Anywhere else and it won't be found. This is my current > setup and it is working fine: > > Master primary- 540Mb Seagate IDE > Master slave- ATAPI CD-ROM > Secondary master- Western Digital 1.6Gb IDE > Secondart slave- OPEN > > I hope this helps, > Ken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Ken Monville - desmo@bandwidth.org > - http://www.bandwidth.org/~desmo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > On Tue, 14 May 1996, John Crosswhite wrote: > > > > > > > ASUS P55TP4XE > > Primary EIDE Channel (master): 1 1.2 Gig Samsung HD > > Primary EIDE Channel (slave) : 1 1.2 Gig Samsung HD > > Secondary EIDE Channel (master): 1 Toshiba EIDE CD-ROM Drive > > Secondary EIDE Channel (slave) : Nothing > > > > I am having problems getting the Secondary Channel to be recognized. All > > bios settings are default except for geometries. As anybody with an ATAPI > > CD-ROM drive knows, you cannot define settings for the CD-ROM in the bios. > > I believe the bios is just concerned with fixed disk stuff. > -snip- > > > > John Crosswhite > > crosswjo@cs.orst.edu > > -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \