From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 4 7:14:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8615B37B698 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12nMAV-0005KO-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 15:59:55 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:59:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Haikal Saadh Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3rd CDROM Message-ID: <20000504155955.A20403@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <009701bfb508$d7f22640$07a093cb@timberwolf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <009701bfb508$d7f22640$07a093cb@timberwolf>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:06:51AM +1000 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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