Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:12:04 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: stanislav shalunov <shalunov@att.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990506111007.-24275F-100000@akane> In-Reply-To: <199905061423.KAA90992@tuzik.lz.att.com>
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> > Try changing it's location on the IDE cable. Either change it to > > master or slave or take it from the secondary cable to the primary one. > > See if that makes a differance. > > I tried master and single (slave doesn't make much sense to me for a > single IDE device). I would go ahead and try it anyways. Some of the faster drives having timing problems that seems to be 'fixed' by making it a slave. BTC drives are a fine example of this. I don't know the specifics, I just know that it works sometimes. :) > If I put on on ``the other'' cable (not the one it came plugged in to, > I'm not sure which one is primary) the kernel finds no IDE > controllers (and naturally can't find any CD-ROMs). I don't remeber, were you able to boot off the CDROM fine? When you mount it what happens? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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