Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:00:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: MikeM <zlists@mgm51.com> Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2RC2 - timeouts with tertiary IDE controller & CD-ROM Message-ID: <20031230185841.B35480@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200312301857030994.007E9620@sentry.24cl.home> References: <200312301857030994.007E9620@sentry.24cl.home>
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, MikeM wrote: > > Yay timing issues. Your drive is jumpered for master and/or single > > operation, yes? > > Unknown. The CD-ROM drive is a no-name drive that has no documentation > for the jumper(s). Most of the CDROM drives I've come across have 3 settings, labelled MA, SL, and CS. Normally MA == Master & Single, SL == Slave, and CS == Cable Select. Make sure that MA is jumpered. > > have you replaced the cable? > > I just replaced the cable with another, and I saw the same symptoms. > Additionally, the previous cable has worked fine on FreebSD 4.9 and RH > Linux 8.0 (can I say that here) when the CD-ROM is plugged into the > tertiary IDE controller. The previous cable also worked fine with FreeBSD > 5.2RC2 when the the CD-ROM was plugged into the secondary IDE controller. Good to check nonetheless. 5.2 has a newer ATA driver that did change the timings and such for detection. There's a LOT of ATA devices that are really, really picky about the timing. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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