From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 6:11:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023B737B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD7C43F75 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2BEBSTb006677; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:11:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E6DEECB.4050401@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:12:27 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subhro Sankha Kar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Primary Slave does not work References: <20030311075556.95453.qmail@webhosting1.macroshell.com> In-Reply-To: <20030311075556.95453.qmail@webhosting1.macroshell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: > Hello Folks, > I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I got a 40GB IDE Seagate Cheetah connected to > the Primary as the master and a Samsung CD-ROM SC-152C as a slave to the > Hard Drive. I have also got a Samsung CD Writer SW-212B connected to the > secondary controller as master. When I boot FreeBSD-4.7-Release it fails > to recognise my CDROM Drive. I can see entries like "ATA Device > Identification Retries Exceeded". Just for an experiment I tried to > connect the CDROM as a slave to the CD Writer on the Secondary. This > time it worked fine. I cant keep my CDROM and CDWRITER on the same > controller as I need to copy on-the-Fly. Can you please help me to make > my CDROM work as a slave to the HD? Get a better CD ROM? Search the list archives for threads on CD ROMs. I believe the upshot is that many CD ROMs have badly implemented ATA interfaces that don't work well with certain other interfaces. (i.e. You CD ROM works OK with a CD burner that's only doing ATA 33, but can't function on a chain with a HDD that's doing ATA 100) The problem seems to be fairly common, it comes up on the list about once a month. I've seen it a number of times as well, and the solution has always been to move the CD ROM to the secondary chain. In your case, moving to the secondary chain is a problem (I assume) because you want to dup CDs at the max speed the burner will go. If you _need_ to have it work, you'll either need a CD ROM that works with all other ATA devices, or switch to SCSI devices. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message