Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:20:31 +0100 (BST) From: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slave-only ATAPI cdroms (was: Re: mount cdrom returns ...) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970911130806.17420D-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199709110243.TAA25484@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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> 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.
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> Any reason you don't want to move the jumper on the CD-ROM, and make it
> a master?
>
Well, I have my cdrom drive on primary slave, without a master, because
otherwise FreeBSD 2.2.2-release does not recognize my cdrom drive (BTC 8x
ATAPI).
I had it on master, MS-DOS was happy, 2.1.5-release was too. Come
2.2.2-release, MS-DOS is still happy, but FreeBSD tells me it's not there.
(Me: "it is!" FreeBSD: "No it's not" Me: "yes, look, just above the floppy
drive" FreeBSD (determined): "well, I don't know what you have above your
floppy drive, but it's not an ATAPI drive")
Now I have it on slave, without a master, and MS-DOS is still happy, and
FreeBSD tells me it's there, after taking about 20 seconds to probe for
it. (And me shouting at the computer: "It's there! Primary controller, on
slave mode, just look there will-ya!", FreeBSD seems to need the shouting)
During my struggle, I played with that little `CS' jumper too. I don't
know off the top of my head how I set it eventually, but it made a big
difference for FreeBSD, and a small difference for MS-DOS.
Groetjes,
Kees Jan
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