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Robert Froese <froese@mtu.edu> top-posted:

> I have the same problem with my FreeBSD 5.1-R system on an Intel 865 chipset 
> box.  I have two hard drives on one IDE channel and a CD-R/W and CD-ROM on 
> the other.  FreeBSD always recognizes the CD drive that is jumpered master 
> and throws the "Retries Exceeded" error for the slave, regardless of which 
> drive is master and which is slave.

That sounds like a cabling problem, actually...