Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:10:32 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Joachim Kuebart <joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Cc: jack <jack@xtalwind.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Michael Bangert <mbanger@champion.iupui.edu> Subject: Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424190830.22484C-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970423020357.joa@delos.lf.net>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote: > > On 22-Apr-97 jack wrote: > >On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Michael Bangert wrote: > > > >> >From all the documentation I can read, it seems that an ATAPI CD-ROM > >> must be on the primary IDE as a slave drive. > > > >Not always. Seems to depend on how closely the drive follows the ATAPI > >standard. > I have a GoldStar 12x "master on secondary" and it works perfectly. > > c u Jo > > > > >> I have 2 Hard drives, and > >> one CD-ROM. If I put the CD-ROM on primary/slave IDE and put the second > >> hard drive on secondary/master, DOS gets quite screwed up. You may simply need to change some setting in the device driver DOS loads in its config.sys. Look there for what seems to be an I/O port address and an IRQ number and try changing that to reflect the controller the CD is now connected to. It should work just fine then. > >> > >> The thing is, I want FreeBSD to live on the 2nd Hard drive, and DOS on > >> the first. Am I throwing potato chips into the wind here? > > > >I've run FreeBSD from the first and third of three IDE drives with a > >CD-ROM as the slave/secondary. > > > I have Win95 on "primary master", FreeBSD "primary slave" and CDROM (as I said) > "secondary master". All that happens is that when FreeBSD boots up the wdc1 > probe takes ages (30secs or so...) Try deleting the wd2 and wd3 lines from the kernel (be careful - it might cause your CD to stop working). If it works (even if you comment out just one - try wd3 first), it will make probing *much* faster. > > c u Jo > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org>; > Top breeders recommend it > > Joachim Kuebart <joa@delos.lf.net> > <joa@stuttgart.netsurf.de> <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> > Germany Tel: +49 711 653706 > Nadav
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