From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 00:13:42 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 01F6716A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.proficuous.com (www.proficuous.com [209.240.79.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB36F43D39 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:13:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@proficuous.com) Received: from [192.168.3.69] (aaron-workstation.proficuous.com [192.168.3.69]) by mail.proficuous.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB79A894F0; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:13:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "Aaron P. Martinez" To: jim.chapman@sympatico.ca In-Reply-To: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca> References: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1099008851.4101.124.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:14:11 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: BSD Questions 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: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:13:42 -0000 On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:04, Jim Chapman wrote: > 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. In the bios.....how do you ahve the devices defined? have you tried to set them instead of setting to auto? How do you have the jumpters set....both on these devices and the master device? Do you always use the same master device or have you tried with a different on? > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > Thanks. > Aaron