Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 01:37:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart <joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> To: jack <jack@xtalwind.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Michael Bangert <mbanger@champion.iupui.edu> Subject: Re: IDE hard drives, ATAPI CD's Message-ID: <XFMail.970423020357.joa@delos.lf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970421202252.22510C-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>
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On 22-Apr-97 jack wrote: >On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, 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. > >Not always. Seems to depend on how closely the drive follows the ATAPI >standard. I have a GoldStar 12x "master on secondary" and it works perfectly. c u Jo > >> 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. >> >> 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? > >I've run FreeBSD from the first and third of three IDE drives with a >CD-ROM as the slave/secondary. > I have Win95 on "primary master", FreeBSD "primary slave" and CDROM (as I said) "secondary master". All that happens is that when FreeBSD boots up the wdc1 probe takes ages (30secs or so...) c u Jo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org>; Top breeders recommend it Joachim Kuebart <joa@delos.lf.net> <joa@stuttgart.netsurf.de> <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Germany Tel: +49 711 653706
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