Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:28:41 -0400 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: BSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATA Slave Devices Message-ID: <200410281028.41765.bastill@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44oeinkid1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca> <44oeinkid1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca> writes: > > 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. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > If you set something up as a slave, make sure that there is a master > on that bus. Makes sense - BUT ... My AL440LX motherboard will not accept ANYTHING except ONE CDROM drive on secondary master. Secondary IDE slave is not accessable at all :-( I have no idea how to fix this. :-( -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au
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