Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 23:40:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: David Biggs <dabiggs@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE secondary controller .... Message-ID: <37A931EE.E50A527A@3-cities.com> References: <000501bedf19$19e0ec60$3c754218@mtnk1.on.wave.home.com>
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David Biggs wrote: > > Hi, I have a question. I'm running a PII 400 on an Asus P2B-F motherboard. I > have conectted my hard drive to the primary IDE controller and my CD-ROM to > the secondary. At this point it fails to detect the CD-ROM at all. I get an > error in sys. devices indicating that my ide secondary controller(dual fifo) > is not funtioning properly. I do not want to daisy chain my CD-ROM to my > hard drive as I understand that since I am running a 7200 rpm drive it will > not run at the proper speed if configured this way. What should I do to > correct the problem? I'm running 3.2-Stable on a P2B-B with 3 IDE HD's and a CDROM as a master on the secondary channel. An obvious question is did you enable the secondary channel in the BIOS. It isn't enabled by default on any of the systems I have used. IF so, is the CDROM the master because that seems to make a lot of difference. Kent > > Any help would be great. > David Biggs > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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