Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 22:59:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Jay M. Richmond" <jayrich@room101.sysc.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chad@dcfinc.com, Charlie ROOT <root@room101.sysc.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount cdrom returns "input/output error" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970910225842.437A-100000@room101.sysc.com> In-Reply-To: <19970911130343.52563@lemis.com>
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As I explained in my latest post, I've already tried making the CD-ROM a master, on both the primary and secondary controllers.. Also it just worked fine a few days ago under 2.2.2-RELEASE, so I'm positive this is not the problem. On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:43:22PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > >> The drive is on the second IDE channel as a SLAVE, without a master > >> (this worked fine before with 2.2.2-RELEASE, has there been a > >> change?). > > > > I'd sure flinch at the idea of an IDE channel without a master. I've got > > a system with two IDE channels, and have a hard drive as the master on > > one, and a CD-ROM drive as the master on the other. Both work just > > fine. > > I missed this before. The master on an IDE interface performs work > both for itself and on behalf of the slave (if you ask me, the > terminology's the wrong way round). I can't believe that a slave can > work without a master. > > Greg >
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