From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 21:55:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940481511A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991230055305.XWHV7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:53:05 -0800 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 123YYM-0000Hm-00; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:55:14 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... References: <0.8cf3908f.259c43d3@cs.com> <87so0lxaiw.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <013501bf5288$1e28e650$0400fea9@JADE> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 30 Dec 1999 00:55:14 -0500 Message-ID: <87k8lxx9a5.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kent Stewart" 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