From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 1 17:54:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150D616A41F for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 17:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from audi.websitewelcome.com (audi.websitewelcome.com [67.19.210.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B5D43D48 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 17:54:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from adsl-065-013-105-239.sip.tys.bellsouth.net ([65.13.105.239]:1045 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by audi.websitewelcome.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1ELlZ1-0003QV-U5 for stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:54:24 -0500 Message-ID: <433ECD71.5030603@goldsword.com> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:54:57 -0400 From: "J. T. Farmer" Organization: GoldSword Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: <433E7A97.9020109@gmail.com> <433E8123.80406@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <433E8123.80406@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - audi.websitewelcome.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - goldsword.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Subject: Re: Problem booting FBSD 5.4-stable.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:54:31 -0000 Subhro wrote: > Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:45: > >> Running the latest BIOS version yes. Also running Fail safe options >> with the exception on that I've but the cdrom on first boot device. >> The cable setup is IDE1 <- HD0 (M) <- Cdrom (S). So yes, they're on >> the same cable with manual M/S-setup. >> >> // Sebastian Holmqvist >> > Great. FreeBSD, unlike Linux and Windowz is very very fusy about > hardware. As per the IDE specs, the master drive should always be at > the end of the cable. The middle is occupied by the slave drive, which > is not your case. For a start, I would try fixing that. Also it is > recommended not to mix drive types on a single bus. Therefore it would > be highly recommended to move the optical drive to the secondary bus. > Also do not rely on CS. Ecplicitly jumper them as master and slave. Actually, my understanding of the specifications is that the only time you are required to place the master at the end of the cable is when it is the only device in the chain. If there are two devices in the chain, then either can be Master and provide the timing for both. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software