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Date:      Thu, 9 May 1996 01:11:00 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        crosswjo@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secondary EIDE Controller Problems...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.93.960509010736.13239A-100000@dazed.nol.net>
In-Reply-To: <199605090048.TAA13153@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Wed, 8 May 1996, John S. Dyson wrote:

> > 
> > ----
> > I am sending this to the list again.  It looks as if the first copy never
> > made it.  Apologies for any duplicates.
> > ----
> > 
> > My Config:
> > 
> > ASUS P55TP4XE
> > Using both EIDE Ports:
> > Primary   Port:  2 1.2 Gig Hard Disks
> > Secondary Port:  1 Toshiba EIDE CD-ROM Drive
> > FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE
> > 
> My system is similar, and I have run the above version of FreeBSD (actually
> -stable).  I have 2/WD540 drives, 1.6GByte WD drive, and 2.5Gbyte WD drive,
> along with 2.1 GByte NCR interfaced SCSI drive.  I can see all of them!!!

I found that I had to directly 'hardwire' the placement of devices in my
configuration file to get something similiar to work (1 drive + cdrom on
first port, 2 more drives on 2nd port). The following is the relevant chunk
from my config, it may help or may not, I dunno but if it does, great.

Brett


options         ATAPI
controller      wdc0    at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk            wd0     at wdc0 drive 0
device          wcd0
controller      wdc1    at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
disk            wd2     at wdc1 drive 0
disk            wd3     at wdc1 drive 1




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