Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:09:24 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@its.utas.edu.au> To: john@starfire.mn.org Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM on Primary IDE, slave drive? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961010090758.253A-100000@krondor.cpn.org.au> In-Reply-To: <199610091315.IAA20431@starfire.mn.org>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 john@starfire.mn.org wrote: > I have heard that the ATAPI boot image is set up for the CD to be > on the secondary IDE bus, as master. If this is the case, is there > a way, with boot -c or something, to set it for Primary IDE, Slave? > > I have looked in /cdrom1/*.TXT and /cdrom2/doc/* and found almost > no information pertaining specifically to the ATAPI support. > (Fortunately, "atapi" is pretty unique, because grepping for "-i > ide" gets provide(s), side(s), and idea(s)... :-) In fact, I have > found almost nothing on ATAPI support: how it is configured or what > options there may be. Am I looking in the wrong place? If so, > where is the right place? > > I have a geographically-distant friend who is trying to load FreeBSD > on a new Gateway box with Win95 pre-loaded. The CD worked fine > under Win95, but the atapi boot image doesn't find it. > > Thanks for any and all help! > > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services > E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417 > > As far as I know, the default setup is for the IDE CD to be a slave on the primary controller. This is certainly how mine was set up when I did the 2.1.5 install. Cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Infrastructure Services ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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