From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 20:58:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA04054 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from io.org (io.org [198.133.36.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA04024 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 486-hot-rod.net4.io.org (486-hot-rod.net4.io.org [199.166.239.214]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA18891; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 23:57:30 -0400 Received: by 486-hot-rod.net4.io.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BB7116.F3060DA0@486-hot-rod.net4.io.org>; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 23:56:46 -0400 Message-ID: <01BB7116.F3060DA0@486-hot-rod.net4.io.org> From: James B Amy To: "'FreeBSD Questions'" , "'FreeBSD'" , "'tcg@ime.net'" Subject: RE: FreeBSD CD Installation Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 14:58:41 -0400 Encoding: 46 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary, My questions now are: wd0: HD master HD slave wd1: CD master Does this work anyone? (not revelant to original question) Glad you asked. It is relevant because this is the setup I currently have and would like to be able to use! Or MUST it be wd0: HD master CD slave wd1: HD master (Not revelant to original question) This is a possible reconfiguration for me however, I was under the impression that having an ATAPI device connected to the same IDE channel as a HD affected the performance of the HD. Apparently, the HD is forced to wait for CD-ROM commands to complete and vice versa, thus slowing things down. It is always recommended that a CD-ROM drive be connected to a secondary IDE channel, while the primary channel be used by the HDs. I am not sure but I belive I read here in -questions that as long as you do actually have a slave on wd0 that a ATAPI cd will work on wd1 as master. Am I wrong?? (Not revelant to original question) Again, very relevant to my situation and I hope it does work! But that is not what the installation manual implies. Apparently the CD-ROM must be configured as slave, therefore I either have to put the CD-ROM on the primary channel along with one of my HDs or, I have to connect another IDE device to my secondary channel as master. Either way, performance is affected. Is FreeBSD working on this CD-ROM master/slave problem? Jim jimamy@io.org ************************************************************************* Jim Amy jimamy@io.org To know life's purpose, http://www.io.org/~jimamy/ One must know life's Creator! Fax: (905) 640-2561 *************************************************************************