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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:28:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jack <jack@xtalwind.net>
To:        Michael Bangert <mbanger@champion.iupui.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970421202252.22510C-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <335BD941.2B3F@champion.iupui.edu>

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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 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.
> 
> 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.   


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