From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 15: 9:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sttlpop2.sttl.uswest.net (sttlpop2.sttl.uswest.net [206.81.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA0C237C185 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wsanborn@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 71772 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2000 23:09:45 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org@fixme Received: (qmail 71762 invoked by uid 0); 7 Mar 2000 23:09:45 -0000 Received: from rdslppp159.sttl.uswest.net (HELO milk) (216.160.110.159) by pop.sttl.uswest.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2000 23:09:45 -0000 From: To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:08:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's Reply-To: wsanborn@uswest.net Message-ID: <38C51B7D.23768.D1292C@localhost> In-reply-to: <007c01bf8888$69c4d3e0$cd6ec8d0@lexmark.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Mar 2000, at 17:56, Jim Freeze wrote: > > As an aside, I'd recommend making your ATAPI CDROM drive the primary > > slave. Many folks report problems with ATAPI CDROMs configured on the > > secondary channel. > > What types of problems are people experiencing (is it other than > performance?) > and is this a problem with FreeBSD or some weakness in the ATAPI protocol? > > Thanks > > Jim I have 2 20gig IBM drives as master and slave on the primary channel, with a Toshiba CD- ROM as master on the secondary channel. I have had zero problems with this combination. This is with 3.4-stable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message