Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:38:16 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Chris <reman@tig.com.au> Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Biju Susmer <bee@wipinfo.soft.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Message-ID: <37AA2E78.2AFF095E@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908040555160.26929-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> <37A94F66.C9698865@tig.com.au>
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Chris wrote:
>
> When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a
> Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary
> master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my
> CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never got
> a straight answer as to why it didnt work and why it shouldnt be changed
> or supported. I did get an answer from someone that said that it should
> work in 3.0+, I tried and it didnt work. *shrug* probably just my mobo
> and FBSD didnt like each other in this regard.
Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE
controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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