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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:02:04 -0800
From:      Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
To:        Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Subject:   Re: Problem Detecting IDE CDROM in 3.1-Stable
Message-ID:  <36F29F2C.81D43E95@seattleu.edu>
References:  <19990318190452.A30629@intrepid.net> <36F1CB7A.563E86AF@seattleu.edu> <19990319082341.A3074@intrepid.net>

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Mark Conway Wirt wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:58:50PM -0800, Eric Hodel wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure you've enabled your IDE controller in BIOS?  If your
> > IDE-CDROM is your only IDE device it may have been turned off.  Also
> > check to make sure it is probed by BIOS, and try moving it to primay
> > master.
> 
> Moving it to primary master did the trick.  Not being much of a
> hardware guy: is that a FreeBSD issue, or an IDE issue?  I spoke with
> someone who said some of the OS's out there don't cough on that....
> 
> --Mark

I've found IDE to be "touchy" in some cases, such as HDDs not agreeing
on being master/slave to each other.  On the other hand, it could be
FreeBSD...try the archives...
-- 
Eric Hodel
hodeleri@seattleu.edu

"If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything."
	-- A. L.


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