From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 25 13:13:12 2003 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 19FCA37B407 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:13:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from web10704.mail.yahoo.com (web10704.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BC1B43F3F for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030125211310.33917.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.219.135.59] by web10704.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:13:10 PST Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:13:10 -0800 (PST) From: "James J. Ramsey" Reply-To: jjramsey@pobox.com Subject: Re: ATA problems with FreeBSD (was Revisiting the semirandom bug/issue in FreeBSD's ATA querying) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <65of65kky8.f65@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > I can't even guess what the problem might be, but > can you (or do you not > want to) work around it? If you read my e-mail again, you should find this: "In the second setup, I scrounged up an ATA cable that I knew could handle ATA66. I used this newer cable to attach the hard drive to the motherboard, and I used the old cable to attach the CD-ROM to the motherboard as a secondary master. (The jumper for the CD-ROM was moved accordingly.) In this setup, the ATA querying problem went away, or at the very least, I could not reproduce it (and I tried to, several times)." So yes, I most definitely can work around the problem, by making my CD-ROM a secondary master rather than a primary slave. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that. Whether I want to simply work around the problem is another matter. I'd rather find out the cause of the problem before working around it. I don't want to do some voodoo that just happens to make FreeBSD work only to find that something I do later (i.e. add a hard drive, change the CD-ROM) undoes the voodoo and causes things to mysteriously fail again. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message