Date: 27 Oct 2004 16:37:30 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: jim.chapman@sympatico.ca Cc: BSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATA Slave Devices Message-ID: <44oeinkid1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca> References: <417FE31F.4090607@sympatico.ca>
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Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca> writes: > I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive > and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a > message > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > during the boot. > > I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and > different cables. The bios recognizes them as slaves. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? If you set something up as a slave, make sure that there is a master on that bus.
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