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From: may@mostel.tsr.ru (Shurik Anikin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI & CD-ROM as master
Date: 26 Apr 1996 09:54:23 +0400
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Rob van Vliet (rvv@IAEhv.nl) wrote:
> Hi,

> I have a Pentium and PCI bus. I have two harddisks on the primary IDE
> controller and an IDE CD-ROM as a master on the secondary IDE controller.

> At startup FreeBSD does not recognize the secndary IDE controller. I read
> somewhere that the CD-ROM should be a slave. The BIOS however does not 
> recognize the CD-ROM as a slave (dont ask me why).

> Is it possible to have FreeBSD recognize a CD-ROM installed as a master?

	There is way, to resolve your problems. Put on First IDE controller
Hard Disk as master, and CD-ROM as slave. Put on second ide controller
your second hard disk.


> Thanx!

> Rob
> -- 
> Rob van Vliet                            Tel:                +31-(0)40-2119541
> Leliestraat 1                            Fax:                +31-(0)40-2435729
> 5615 BK  EINDHOVEN                       E-mail:                  rvv@iaehv.nl
> THE NETHERLANDS                          URL:    http://www.iaehv.nl/users/rvv
-- 
Аникин Александр
may@TSR.ru
Shurik.Anikin@f48.n1.z963.viwanet.ru