Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:42:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: bee@wipinfo.soft.net Cc: 'Chris' <reman@tig.com.au>, 'Vince Vielhaber' <vev@michvhf.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Message-ID: <37AA75DD.3F3DD365@softweyr.com> References: <001201bedfb8$92fa3440$88291fac@wipro.tcpn.com>
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Biju Susmer wrote:
>
> > Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE
> > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave.
> >
> I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this
> configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration?
> When i was using 2.2.7-stable, FBSD used to recognize my CDROM *sometimes* as
> slave, not always.
Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why
should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured
hardware?
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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