From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 13:31:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA14342 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA14275; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA19286; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606082025.NAA19286@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Tomas Klockar cc: john@zyqad.co.uk (John Richards), freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi ATAPI CD-ROM + big disks In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 08 Jun 96 08:12:26 +0200. <199606080612.IAA17761@father.ludd.luth.se> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 13:24:05 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I have just got a Hitachi ATAPI CD-rom - on trial - if it doesn't work I can [...] >My experience is that you need the CD-ROM as master. on the secondary >controller I have a Mitsumi and my freebsd just finds it if I have it >as master. I don't know why. I haven't had a look at the code. I know why: because IDE sucks. It's a hackish, nightmarish abomination. As can be illustrated by the problems being discussed here. I have heard of this same behavior (some drive needs to be master or won't work) under many different OSs -- it's probably not a FreeBSD-specific problem. Sorry, I know that's not very helpful, but it's Yet Another Reason to buy SCSI, if there is any way you can. If you're stuck with IDE, I'm not telling you to throw it away unless you can afford to replace it all. I'm just sending my sympathies... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------