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Date:      27 Oct 2004 16:37:30 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        jim.chapman@sympatico.ca
Cc:        BSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ATA Slave Devices
Message-ID:  <44oeinkid1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca>
References:  <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca>

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Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca> writes:

> I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive
> and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a
> message
> 
> ATA identify retries exceeded
> 
> during the boot.
> 
> I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and
> different cables. The bios recognizes them as slaves.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?

If you set something up as a slave, make sure that there is a master
on that bus.



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