Date: 30 Dec 1999 00:55:14 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... Message-ID: <87k8lxx9a5.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> References: <0.8cf3908f.259c43d3@cs.com> <87so0lxaiw.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <013501bf5288$1e28e650$0400fea9@JADE>
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"Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> writes: > > What does the CD-ROM's jumper have to do with installing an OS? If > it > > worked with other OS's, then it should be deemed workable, and let > the > > jumper alone. > > It has a lot to do with it. Some drives aren't detected when they are > the only device and jumpered as a slave on the secondary IDE channel. > A couple don't want to be the master on the secondary IDE channel but > work just fine as a slave behind the HD on the primary IDE channel. My > Teac is the master on the secondary IDE channel. The slave on the > secondary channel is a WD 3.1GB HD. > > I looked at all of the IDE CDROM's that I have and the have either 3 > or 5 jumper locations. The right three have text above them saying > something like (cs or csel), (ma or master), and (sl or slave). Of course, a CD-Rom must be configured in order to be useful. My point was that if this CD-Rom worked with other OS's (as it follows from the original message), then the jumper settings would have to be left alone. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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