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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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