Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:14:11 -0500 From: "Aaron P. Martinez" <ml@proficuous.com> To: jim.chapman@sympatico.ca Cc: BSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATA Slave Devices Message-ID: <1099008851.4101.124.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> In-Reply-To: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca> References: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca>
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On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:04, Jim Chapman wrote: > I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive > and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a message > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > during the boot. > > I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and different > cables. The bios recognizes them as slaves. In the bios.....how do you ahve the devices defined? have you tried to set them instead of setting to auto? How do you have the jumpters set....both on these devices and the master device? Do you always use the same master device or have you tried with a different on? > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > Thanks. > Aaron
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