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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:08:10 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: hai@flash.net
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Subject: Re: Hardware problems
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On Sat, Sep 27, 1997 at 11:08:33PM +0000, Hai Le wrote:
> 1)  I have a Atapi CD-ROM drive (Goldstar 16x).  I read the section
> where the author requires that all Atapi CD-ROM's must be "slave"
> drives.

I don't know anybody who "requires" it.  If it works, don't fix it.
Did it work in the original configuration?

> I have two hardrives on my computer so this is how it currently
> looks:
>       Primary Master:  disk 1
>       Primary Slave :  disk 2
>       Secondary Master:  CD-ROM
>       Secondary Slave:  nothing
>
> After reading that section in the book, I attempted to do the following:
>
>        Primary Master:  disk 1
>        Primary Slave :  CD-ROM
>        Secondary Master:  disk 2
>        Secondary Slave:  nothing
> I ran into problems.  The system took about 10 minutes to boot up Win
>  '95.  Do you have any suggestions?

Is this faster or slower than normal?  I don't know Windows 95.  But
I'd say it's a bug if it's slower.

>  I am really exicted about getting FreeBSD on my system here, but this
>  problem is really causing me to lose my hair.....

Did it solve the problem?

Greg