From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 00:41:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA10483 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 00:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA10478 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 00:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA02400; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:40:23 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma002395; Mon Dec 2 10:40:09 1996 Message-ID: <32A295D7.2CDE@barcode.co.il> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 10:39:51 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher J. Booth" CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1st Drive,2nd Drive IDE 1, CD-ROM IDE 2? Possible? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christopher J. Booth wrote: > > I have my 1st and 2nd hard drives on IDE 1, and my CD-ROM on IDE 2. It was > the only way my system would recognize the two drives. I want to install > and run FreeBSD on the second drive. > > Is this possible? > > Linux sees the CD-ROM drive this way. I would like to run FreeBSD thus. > > Thanks. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Booth What, in ill thought again? Men must endure > cbooth@mordor.com Their going hence, even as their coming hither: > Ripeness is all. ... --Edgar, _King Lear_ There are reports of this setup working (two hard drives on primary IDE, CD on secondary IDE). However, in many cases, the CD ROM is only recognized as the slave on the secondary controller. You may want to try that if you have problems with your current configuration. There are a couple of jumpers you need to set on your drives to change their master/slave roles but other than that it's pretty simple. Nadav