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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!olivea!decwrl!purdue!yuma!cassat!nate From: nate@cassat.vis.colostate.edu (Nate Sammons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE cd-rom on 2nd IDE controller? Date: 17 Nov 1995 15:48:42 GMT Organization: CSU Computer Visualization Lab Lines: 37 Message-ID: <48iasq$24br@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> References: <48i202$q1t@maui.cc.odu.edu> Reply-To: nate@vis.colostate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cassat.vis.colostate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thus spake Jonathan Sturges (sturgesj@bosco.cc.odu.edu): > Hi, > I've got a 2.1.0-951026-SNAP system, and I re-built the kernel to accomodate > an ATAPI cd-rom drive. > However, the system won't recogize it. > The cd-rom is on the 2nd IDE controller, because there are 2 HDs on the first > controller. I think this must be what's affecting it, because I setup another > system where the cd-rom was on the primary IDE controller, and it worked > great. > How, if it all, can I make this work? > If ATAPI cd-roms are only supported on the first controller, I suppose I can > move the 2nd disk to the 2nd controller, since that is supported. That will > leave room to attach the cd-rom to the primary controller. > any pointers? > Jonathan Sturges, sturgesj@bosco.cc.odu.edu > LAN/Workstation Support > Old Dominion University > "Omigod... the dead have risen, and they're > voting Republican!" --Bart Simpson Well, I had this problem under linux and it was solved by buying a HD controller with it's own BIOS... my motherboard didn't supprt 4 drives, but my controller did, which was a problem. The board cost me all of $50 and works great. -nate -- Nate Sammons <nate@vis.colostate.edu> System Administrator http://www.vis.colostate.edu/info/staff/nate CSU Computer Visualization Lab "The torch of chaos and doubt -- (970) 491-1578 this is what the sage steers by." -Chuang Tzu