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Subject: Re: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD
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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:49:21PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> 
> * Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-05-29 00:05 -0700]
> >  Wrong.  Each IDE cable can have 2 devices a master and a slave.  So if 
> >  you have 2 IDE controllers you can have master, slave, master, slave 
> >  for a total of 4 drives.
> >  
> >  It is not master on ide cable 1, slave on ide cable 2.
> 
> 
> There's nothing wrong with having a primary master and a secondary slave, 
> just as much as there is nothing wrong with the setup you proposes.

Although it is theoretically fine to have just a slave device on an IDE
channel without a master device, that configuration fails to work in
many cases.  If it fails to work it is probably a bug in some component
of the system, but that doesn't help the person having the problem.

If you have just a single IDE device on an IDE channel it should be
configured as master, not as slave.  Having it configured as slave is
supposed to work, but often does not work and is therefore not
recommended.


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