From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 17:04:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18195 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jocki.domestic (kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.233.216.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18076 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:03:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joki@localhost) by jocki.domestic (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05891; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 02:03:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 01:37:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart To: jack Subject: Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Michael Bangert Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 22-Apr-97 jack wrote: >On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, 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. > >Not always. Seems to depend on how closely the drive follows the ATAPI >standard. I have a GoldStar 12x "master on secondary" and it works perfectly. c u Jo > >> 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. >> >> 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? > >I've run FreeBSD from the first and third of three IDE drives with a >CD-ROM as the slave/secondary. > I have Win95 on "primary master", FreeBSD "primary slave" and CDROM (as I said) "secondary master". All that happens is that when FreeBSD boots up the wdc1 probe takes ages (30secs or so...) c u Jo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD Top breeders recommend it Joachim Kuebart Germany Tel: +49 711 653706