From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 21 17:28:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00637 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper3b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00572 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA22594; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:28:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:28:03 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Michael Bangert cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's In-Reply-To: <335BD941.2B3F@champion.iupui.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Michael Bangert wrote: > >From all the documentation I can read, it seems that an ATAPI CD-ROM > must be on the primary IDE as a slave drive. Not always. Seems to depend on how closely the drive follows the ATAPI standard. > I have 2 Hard drives, and > one CD-ROM. If I put the CD-ROM on primary/slave IDE and put the second > hard drive on secondary/master, DOS gets quite screwed up. > > The thing is, I want FreeBSD to live on the 2nd Hard drive, and DOS on > the first. Am I throwing potato chips into the wind here? I've run FreeBSD from the first and third of three IDE drives with a CD-ROM as the slave/secondary. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------