From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 20:34:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA21955 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA21934; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA29558; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:03:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970911130343.52563@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:03:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: Charlie ROOT , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount cdrom returns "input/output error" References: <199709110243.TAA25484@freebie.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709110243.TAA25484@freebie.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:43:22PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:43:22PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: >> The drive is on the second IDE channel as a SLAVE, without a master >> (this worked fine before with 2.2.2-RELEASE, has there been a >> change?). > > I'd sure flinch at the idea of an IDE channel without a master. I've got > a system with two IDE channels, and have a hard drive as the master on > one, and a CD-ROM drive as the master on the other. Both work just > fine. I missed this before. The master on an IDE interface performs work both for itself and on behalf of the slave (if you ask me, the terminology's the wrong way round). I can't believe that a slave can work without a master. Greg