From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 11:14:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471BB15544 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp82.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.82]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03981; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:12:04 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: stanislav shalunov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199905061423.KAA90992@tuzik.lz.att.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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