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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: IDE CD DRIVE placed alone as wcd1
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Jose' Marcos Bizinover wrote:

> Any chances of my Creative Labs model CD820E.1v78b9108, 8x speed IDE CD
> Drive being placed ALONE and RECOGNIZED/PROBED by FreeBSD on SECONDARY PCI
> IDE onboard, wcd1, I/0=170, IRQ=15)????

Maybe.  Try it.  It depends on your machine.

> 
> At moment, it's only being recognized and works if i place it as slave on my
> primary PCI IDE (I/0=1F0, IRQ=14), but this, unfortunatelly,  it's impacting
> performance in my other O/S...

Welcome to IDE.  Might I recommend that if you're looking for performance,
to try SCSI?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major