Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:21 -0700 From: "Kevin Y." <airinx@geocities.com> To: Michael Bangert <mbanger@champion.iupui.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's Message-ID: <335D4F35.5EAF@geocities.com> References: <335BD941.2B3F@champion.iupui.edu>
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Michael Bangert wrote: > > >From all the documentation I can read, it seems that an ATAPI CD-ROM > must be on the primary IDE as a slave drive. I have 2 Hard drives, and > one CD-ROM. If I put the CD-ROM on primary/slave IDE and put the second > hard drive on secondary/master, DOS gets quite screwed up. It has happened to me too. I have a Creative Atapi CD-rom and 2 harddisk, with 2 ide controlers on board. And, yes by placing the second HDD as master on ide2, dos does get grumpy :b > > The thing is, I want FreeBSD to live on the 2nd Hard drive, and DOS on > the first. Am I throwing potato chips into the wind here? My solution was to first, place the 2 HDDs on ide1 (controller #1), the jumpers are set like this : HDD1 = set a master HDD2 = set a slave Then, I put the CD-Rom on ide2 with the jumper settings set like this: CD-Rom = set to master. On setting it up like this dos/windoze still recognises the 2 HDDs and the CD-Rom. Also, FreeBSD recognises the CD-Rom on the second IDE controller. Note: I have WinNT and FreeBSD 2.1.7, but I think it should work with Win95 and any version of FreeBSD that supports Atapi CD-Roms. If any of the FreeBSD hackers have better suggestions, you may want to take their advise. As I only had FreeBSD for less than 2 months, I am still learning :-) > > Thank you, > Michael Bangert > mbanger@iupui.edu Good Luck. Peace, -- Kevin Yeoh. (kycl@tm.net.my) (smiley@ppp.nasionet.net) UNIX -> NEWBIE :b Use PC-UNIX, "A better way to compute!!"
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