From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 21:28:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA22325 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 21:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wasted.bandwidth.org (root@wasted.bandwidth.org [169.207.10.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA22320 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 21:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from desmo@localhost) by wasted.bandwidth.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA27636; Wed, 15 May 1996 23:28:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 23:28:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Kenneth J Monville X-Sender: desmo@wasted To: crosswjo@cs.orst.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0-R Cannot Detect Secondary EIDE Channel... In-Reply-To: <9605150205.AA26353@hpcvusd.cv.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have found through trial and error that the only way to get 2 hard drives and an atapi cd-rom is to have the cd-rom on the Master slave. Anywhere else and it won't be found. This is my current setup and it is working fine: Master primary- 540Mb Seagate IDE Master slave- ATAPI CD-ROM Secondary master- Western Digital 1.6Gb IDE Secondart slave- OPEN I hope this helps, Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ken Monville - desmo@bandwidth.org - http://www.bandwidth.org/~desmo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 14 May 1996, John Crosswhite wrote: > > > ASUS P55TP4XE > Primary EIDE Channel (master): 1 1.2 Gig Samsung HD > Primary EIDE Channel (slave) : 1 1.2 Gig Samsung HD > Secondary EIDE Channel (master): 1 Toshiba EIDE CD-ROM Drive > Secondary EIDE Channel (slave) : Nothing > > I am having problems getting the Secondary Channel to be recognized. All > bios settings are default except for geometries. As anybody with an ATAPI > CD-ROM drive knows, you cannot define settings for the CD-ROM in the bios. > I believe the bios is just concerned with fixed disk stuff. -snip- > > John Crosswhite > crosswjo@cs.orst.edu >