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Subject: Re: kern/1436: 2.1 Installation problems
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Hi Jordan,

> Do you have 2 IDE drives on the primary controller?  Remember, you

With 2 IDE disks on the primary controller, the CD-ROM drive as
master on the secondary controller is not recognised at all
even with the CD-ROM in. (wdc0 not found at 170).
If I move one of the disks to the
secondary controller both it and the CD-ROM drive are recognised
although the CD-ROM drive generates a "not ready" error.
The installation sequence then hangs (or at least waits for a
*long* time) when the initial screen ought to appear.  In this
case there is a "hole" at the primary slave.

> can't have any "holes" in the master/slave, master/slave configuration
> of 2 IDE controllers.

I had not realized this is a restriction.  In fact the machine came
configured with two master devices and no slaves at all, and worked
OK with the pre-installed last year's OS from a large software company.
If FreeBSD can't tolerate "holes" i'll try to change the configuration.
Is it still necessary for the CD-ROM drive to be a primary device?
Are all (or at least more ) ATAPI CD-ROM drives now supported?
Apologies in advance if this is all in the FM for 2.1.5 but I can't
R it as I haven't been able to ftp it all yet.

Stuart