Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:06:53 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050529140653.2181252d.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050529134323.L20141@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEJIFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20050529134323.L20141@maren.thelosingend.net>
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On Sun, 29 May 2005 13:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > * Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-05-29 00:05 -0700] > > Wrong. Each IDE cable can have 2 devices a master and a slave. So > > if you have 2 IDE controllers you can have master, slave, master, > > slave for a total of 4 drives. > > > > It is not master on ide cable 1, slave on ide cable 2. > > > There's nothing wrong with having a primary master and a secondary > slave, just as much as there is nothing wrong with the setup you > proposes. Having a slave without a master won't work! There has to be a master on an IDE cable. I have never seen it work otherwise. What is the point of setting the device to a slave device if it's the only device on the cable anyhow? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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