From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 18:34:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A1516A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:34:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from s1.home.ro (s1.home.ro [193.231.236.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D3443D2D for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:34:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vladtudorache@home.ro) Received: (qmail 4314 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2004 18:17:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (80.97.176.192) by 133.home.ro with SMTP; 28 Oct 2004 18:17:09 -0000 Received: from unknown [80.97.184.202] by 172.31.7.10; 28 Oct 2004 21:34:31 +0300 Message-ID: <41813BB3.1010902@home.ro> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:34:27 +0300 From: Vlad Tudorache User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca> <44oeinkid1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44oeinkid1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ATA Slave Devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:34:34 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: >Jim Chapman 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. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > This happened to me, too. Even if you setup a master device on the same cable with the "pseudotroubled" one it won't work. I don't know why, but on my kernel from which I removed all SCSI support it then worked. For you, with a CDRW... if you remove SCSI support (including ATAPICAM) the cdrdao will not work any more... It seems a FreeBSD's problem with using removable ATAPI devices. The floppy controller behaves strangely with ACPI activated, for example... This is a minus for the FreeBSD, a very stable and secure system...