From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 22:44:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F54014F55 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 22:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11CcmN-00058R-00; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:42:55 -0600 Message-ID: <37AA75DD.3F3DD365@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:42:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bee@wipinfo.soft.net Cc: 'Chris' , 'Vince Vielhaber' , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? References: <001201bedfb8$92fa3440$88291fac@wipro.tcpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message