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From: "Kevin Y." <airinx@geocities.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's
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Michael Bangert wrote:
> 
> >From all the documentation I can read, it seems that an ATAPI CD-ROM
> must be on the primary IDE as a slave drive.  I have 2 Hard drives, and
> one CD-ROM.  If I put the CD-ROM on primary/slave IDE and put the second
> hard drive on secondary/master,  DOS gets quite screwed up.

It has happened to me too. I have a Creative Atapi CD-rom and 2
harddisk, with 2 ide controlers on board.  And, yes by placing the
second HDD as master on ide2, dos does get grumpy :b

> 
> The thing is, I want FreeBSD to live on the 2nd Hard drive, and DOS on
> the first.  Am I throwing potato chips into the wind here?

My solution was to first, place the 2 HDDs on ide1 (controller #1), the
jumpers are set like this :

	HDD1  =  set a master
	HDD2  =  set a slave

Then, I put the CD-Rom on ide2 with the jumper settings set like this:

	CD-Rom  =  set to master.

On setting it up like this dos/windoze still recognises the 2 HDDs and
the CD-Rom.  Also, FreeBSD recognises the CD-Rom on the second IDE
controller.

Note:  I have WinNT and FreeBSD 2.1.7, but I think it should work with
Win95 and any version of FreeBSD that supports Atapi CD-Roms.

If any of the FreeBSD hackers have better suggestions, you may want to
take their advise.  As I only had FreeBSD for less than 2 months, I am
still learning :-)

> 
> Thank you,
> Michael Bangert
> mbanger@iupui.edu

Good Luck.

Peace,
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Kevin Yeoh.
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