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From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI & CD-ROM as master
Date: 28 Apr 1996 18:51:22 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
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In article <4lnrjk$fab@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>, Rob van Vliet <rvv@IAEhv.nl> wrote:
>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?

I got that configuration to work by adding

	device wcd1

to my configuration.  (I may not be correct on this, because I had to
delete my FreeBSD partition, and so can't check).

--Tim Smith