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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