From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 10:24:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11300 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11293 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA10414; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:24:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:24:38 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9606181724.AA10414@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: IDE CDROM configuration In-Reply-To: <12255.835117282@time.cdrom.com> References: <199606181524.BAA17467@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> <12255.835117282@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> Quad speed and is connected alone to the secondary IDE >> port. The following lines are added to my kernel. > If you have only one wd hard disk then it has to be the secondary > (slave) device on the primary controller - it won't work otherwise! :( This is not my experience. I have a couple of machines that have a twin IDE controller and a CD-ROM as the master on the second controller, and they appear to work just fine. (Of course, if the PC world had had the sense to go SCSI, this whole mess would never have happened.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant