Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 13:24:05 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Tomas Klockar <dateck@ludd.luth.se> Cc: john@zyqad.co.uk (John Richards), freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi ATAPI CD-ROM + big disks Message-ID: <199606082025.NAA19286@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 08 Jun 96 08:12:26 %2B0200. <199606080612.IAA17761@father.ludd.luth.se>
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>> I have just got a Hitachi ATAPI CD-rom - on trial - if it doesn't work I can
[...]
>My experience is that you need the CD-ROM as master. on the secondary
>controller I have a Mitsumi and my freebsd just finds it if I have it
>as master. I don't know why. I haven't had a look at the code.
I know why: because IDE sucks. It's a hackish, nightmarish
abomination. As can be illustrated by the problems being discussed
here. I have heard of this same behavior (some drive needs to be
master or won't work) under many different OSs -- it's probably not a
FreeBSD-specific problem.
Sorry, I know that's not very helpful, but it's Yet Another Reason to
buy SCSI, if there is any way you can.
If you're stuck with IDE, I'm not telling you to throw it away unless
you can afford to replace it all. I'm just sending my sympathies...
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