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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:58:02 -0500
From: Prashant Dongre <pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net>
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Hi all,

I saw all the freebsd questions archieves.... and lot many people have reported
to have problem in configuring IDE cd-rom over second IDE port.

I have a system in which I am not able to configure cd-rom over second IDE
port.... at boot time Kernel sees second IDE port on interrupt 15 but not able
to get the cd-rom devices attached to it. But in case of first IDE port the HDD
connected to it gets recognised... I have tried this with all the master/slave
configuration... But if cd-rom is connected as slave on first IDE controller it
works well on FreeBSD as well as on Windows 95....

While on Windows 95 wheather I connect cd-rom on first or second IDE port... it
works well on both positions.... I have problem in configuring IDE cd-rom and
Hard Disk on same IDE controller as this is a 16 X cd-rom drive and I do not get
faster throughput if configured on the same controller as of hard disk... So I
need to keep switching IDE controllers physically if I need to run FreeBSD.

Can anyone help me in configuring IDE hard disk on first IDE controller and
cd-rom over the second IDE controller...

Thanks in advance for any positive thoughts....

Prashant.