Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:21:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Ulf Magnusson <ulfma629@student.liu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: Re: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050530142017.Y32599@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <20050529120946.GA47043@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEJIFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20050529134323.L20141@maren.thelosingend.net> <20050529120946.GA47043@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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* Erik Trulsson [2005-05-29 14:09 +0200] > Although it is theoretically fine to have just a slave device on an IDE > channel without a master device, that configuration fails to work in > many cases. If it fails to work it is probably a bug in some component > of the system, but that doesn't help the person having the problem. > > If you have just a single IDE device on an IDE channel it should be > configured as master, not as slave. Having it configured as slave is > supposed to work, but often does not work and is therefore not > recommended. It seems you are right! However, there should be no need for a slave-only setup anyway.
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