From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 21:23:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA24891 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from room101.sysc.com (root@richmojm2.student.rose-hulman.edu [137.112.206.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA24886; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jayrich@localhost) by room101.sysc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA00449; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 22:59:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 22:59:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Jay M. Richmond" To: Greg Lehey cc: chad@dcfinc.com, Charlie ROOT , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount cdrom returns "input/output error" In-Reply-To: <19970911130343.52563@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As I explained in my latest post, I've already tried making the CD-ROM a master, on both the primary and secondary controllers.. Also it just worked fine a few days ago under 2.2.2-RELEASE, so I'm positive this is not the problem. On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 >