From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 04:36:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA14864 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 04:36:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from wedge.its.utas.edu.au (wedge.its.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA14768 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 04:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id XAA12649; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:34:49 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:34:49 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au To: David Kelly cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, David Kelly wrote: > Doug White said > > > >On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Mark Jamison wrote: > > > >> Hi I was wondering if FreeBSD would run on my system.. > >> > >> My system is configured as follows: > >> > >> 486DX-2 50MHz > >> 8 megs RAM > >> EIDE Controller Card > >> EIDE Mitsumi 4X CD-ROM > >> EIDE Conner 850MB Hard Drive > >> Soundblaster 16 > >> Gravis Ultrasound ACE > >> Cirrus SVGA VESA Card (1meg VRAM) > > > >Only sticky point may be your CDROM, since ATAPI isn't well supported > >(slave on the primary disk only). Will eventually work though :) > > I think you have it backwards. The ATAPI CDROM has to be the master. And > mine works on the 2nd IDE interface. Haven't stressed it to see if it > breaks. > I have had problems using my ATAPI CDROM as the primary device on the second controller as well. My current configuration is wd0 on controller 0 with the CDROM as the slave on controller 0. The second hard disk is on controller 1. I would be interested in knowing how to get the CDROM to work as the primary device on the secondary controller. thanks Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================