From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 05:20:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA17865 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 05:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk (mercury.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA17855 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 05:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kestrel.ukc.ac.uk by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:20:32 +0100 Received: from localhost by kestrel.ukc.ac.uk (5.x/UKC-2.14) id AA17788; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:20:31 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:20:31 +0100 (BST) From: "K.J.Koster" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slave-only ATAPI cdroms (was: Re: mount cdrom returns ...) In-Reply-To: <199709110243.TAA25484@freebie.dcfinc.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 > > 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. > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------v-- Kees Jan Koster tel: UK-1227-453157 e-mail: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk 15 St. Michaels Road, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------ from trials come errors... from errors come legends...