Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 09:01:58 +1100 From: "Geoff C. Marshall" <count@ozemail.com.au> To: jservice@oht.hydro.on.ca, questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI CDROM slave on second controller Message-ID: <34B2A9D6.D7EBE002@ozemail.com.au> References: <tcppop3.1769288138@nemesis.com.au>
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jservice@oht.hydro.on.ca wrote: > > My 200 MHz Pentium has two disk controllers (wd0 and wd1) with a hard > disk > on wd0 and the cdrom drive as a slave on wd1. It takes between 20 and > 30 > seconds to probe and find wd1 and wcd0. Because of ribbon cable > lengths and > the physical layout inside my PC I can't move the cdrom drive cable to > use the > first controller. Is there a boot flag/kernel configuration I can try > to > eliminate this long probing delay in FreeBSD v2.2.2? > Err... There must be, because I don't have the problem. But that is in 2.2-STABLE (v2.2.5) On the other hand, while I can get sound out, I can't play a music CDROM. I think ATAPI on the slave, second drive might be a bit broken. Anybody else know anything about this ? Please respond in email also.... -- ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Geoff C. Marshall <count@ozemail.com.au> No Spam please. Private correspondence only. Please remove from all lists. ---------------------------------- The following should PLEASE note this; root@aol.com, postmaster@aol.com root@hotmail.com, postmaster@hotmail.com root@mail-man.net, postmaster@mail-man.net
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