Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:44:07 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop Message-ID: <20040118134305.X98208-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <20040114234520.A56242@starfire.mn.org>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John wrote: > I get > Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl /kernel: ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > > I've looked at the sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c code - I wonder if I should > just arbitarily raise the retry count a bit - what's everyone else ok, i don't know if this is documented anywhere, but i've never managed to get freebsd to boot off a slave cdrom. i've always had to jumper the ide devices to put the cdrom on as the master device on that particular bus. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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