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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:03:43 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        chad@dcfinc.com
Cc:        Charlie ROOT <root@room101.sysc.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount cdrom returns "input/output error"
Message-ID:  <19970911130343.52563@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709110243.TAA25484@freebie.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:43:22PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970910102558.192B-100000@room101.sysc.com> <199709110243.TAA25484@freebie.dcfinc.com>

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On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:43:22PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
>> The drive is on the second IDE channel as a SLAVE, without a master
>> (this worked fine before with 2.2.2-RELEASE, has there been a
>> change?).
>
> I'd sure flinch at the idea of an IDE channel without a master.  I've got
> a system with two IDE channels, and have a hard drive as the master on
> one, and a CD-ROM drive as the master on the other.  Both work just
> fine.

I missed this before.  The master on an IDE interface performs work
both for itself and on behalf of the slave (if you ask me, the
terminology's the wrong way round).  I can't believe that a slave can
work without a master.

Greg



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