Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:34:49 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@iquest.com> Cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility.. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960130232501.12399A-100000@wedge.its.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v02130502ad33431648f7@[204.177.193.231]>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, David Kelly wrote: > Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> said > > > >On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Mark Jamison wrote: > > > >> Hi I was wondering if FreeBSD would run on my system.. > >> > >> My system is configured as follows: > >> > >> 486DX-2 50MHz > >> 8 megs RAM > >> EIDE Controller Card > >> EIDE Mitsumi 4X CD-ROM > >> EIDE Conner 850MB Hard Drive > >> Soundblaster 16 > >> Gravis Ultrasound ACE > >> Cirrus SVGA VESA Card (1meg VRAM) > > > >Only sticky point may be your CDROM, since ATAPI isn't well supported > >(slave on the primary disk only). Will eventually work though :) > > I think you have it backwards. The ATAPI CDROM has to be the master. And > mine works on the 2nd IDE interface. Haven't stressed it to see if it > breaks. > I have had problems using my ATAPI CDROM as the primary device on the second controller as well. My current configuration is wd0 on controller 0 with the CDROM as the slave on controller 0. The second hard disk is on controller 1. I would be interested in knowing how to get the CDROM to work as the primary device on the secondary controller. thanks Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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