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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:08:12 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD install doesn't see the whole disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0201280959570.260-100000@den2>
In-Reply-To: <20020127203515.C40565@clan.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Nik Clayton wrote:

>  Can you be more specific about this?  And maybe submit a PR with details
>  so we can get it in to the FAQ?

CSEL = Cable Select. On IDE drives, you have three positions for the
jumper: Master, Slave and Cable Select. Think it's part of the PC97/98
spec, and the idea is that CSEL will automagically configure drives as
Master and Slave according to their position on the IDE cable.

CSEL requires an IDE cable which has pin 28 connected to ground, and not
to one of the drive connectors; the drive becomes configured as a slave
otherwise. If you use a non-CSEL cable, and have both drives jumpered as
CSEL, they show up as Master. If pin 28 isn't connected to the ground on
the motherboard IDE connector, the drives show up as slaves.

I've had lots of fun with this one, trying to add drives to Compaqs... ;-)



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Juha
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