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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.jaguNET.com!news From: Paul Chakravarti <paulc@jagunet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: General ATAPI advice Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 16:29:47 -0500 Organization: jaguNET Access Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <313A0F4B.15FB7483@jagunet.com> References: <4h8n0g$bml@hermes.oanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dlup-m.jagunet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Thanks for the advice - one question though - I seem to recall something about not putting a CD and a HDD on the same IDE controller as this slows down the disc (possibly because ide only allows a single outstanding request and disc requests are queued behind (slow) cd requests ???) - can anyone confirm this whether is this true or still a limitation with EIDE ? Raymond Richmond wrote: > > Ok, after seeing this same question several times, and experiencing > the problem myself here is what I have found for "MOST" ATAPI CD's > > To pu it in perspective, my system is a P100, Asus PCI Motherbrd, > Mach64 2Meg, 32Meg EDO, 2 1 gig EIDE drives, 6x Creative CD, etc etc > > The only way to get the CD drive to be recognized is to have it > connected to your primary IDE controller, I have found no other way (after a > marathon 2 day spat with my system) for it to work. You MUST use the atapi > kernal. I eventually ended up with CD and drive one on controller 1 and HD > 2 on second controller. > > Unless your drive is totally unsupported this should work. > > -- > -- > > __^__ __^__ > ( ___ )------------------------------------------------------( ___ ) > | / |---Raymond Richmond---Question Man-------(403)430-0811 -| \ | > | / |---------OA Internet----------Technical Support---------| \ | > |_*_| |_*_| > (_____)----------------richmond@oanet.com--------------------(_____)