From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 14:55:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E363437B51B for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12SSsK-0000UP-00; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:54:48 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Jim Freeze" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:51:24 EST." <006301bf8887$aaf7eb00$cd6ec8d0@lexmark.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:54:48 +0200 Message-ID: <1884.952469688@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:51:24 EST, "Jim Freeze" wrote: > What types of problems are people experiencing (is it other than > performance?) No. Not many people do so much copying from CDROM to the primary disk that the choice of controller makes a noticible difference. There are two problems which I've seen. The first is that the FreeBSD drivers adhere too strictly to the ATAPI specs. Specifically, the spec does not allow an ATAPI driver configured as slave on a masterless channel. The second is that the ATAPI drive, while correctly connected, simply isn't identified during the boot probe. Although it's difficult to say exactly what this is, one can easily imagine a variety of design flaws in any part of the hardware (CDROM, hard drive, controller, cable) that would cause this. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message