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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/
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