Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:59:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3rd CDROM Message-ID: <20000504155955.A20403@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <009701bfb508$d7f22640$07a093cb@timberwolf>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:06:51AM %2B1000 References: <009701bfb508$d7f22640$07a093cb@timberwolf>
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On Thu 2000-05-04 (00:06), Haikal Saadh wrote: > Hi, I was told that IDE CDROM drives need to be slaved to a harddisk inorder > to be detected by FreeBSD. (Some experience installing 3.2 has confirmed > this.) No. IDE buses have to have a master device. You can have CDROM drives as masters. You can't have CDROM drives as slave if there isn't a master, though. You can't have a hard drive as slave if there isn't a master either. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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