From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 11:21:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06052 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (pa3dsp4.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.76]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06036 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:20:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00965; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 14:20:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 14:20:49 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: "Guy F. Boyd" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: atapi conflict in manuals In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Guy F. Boyd wrote: > The alpha quality issues and caveats of the atapi driver are noted. > I am , however, confused on the apparent conflict of the master/ slave > jumpering . Which should it be? Whichever one works for you on your particular hardware. :) Some people have success with it as master others as slave. > Currently , the CD ROM is ( apparently) configured as master, answering > to the probe by the boot floppy at wdc0, and apparently happy. If the boot floppy probe sees it you *should* be OK. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------