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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM through SB 16 IDE controller
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:25:51 +0000
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Chiu Wai Pun, m^_^m (ykmpm) wrote:
> 
> Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote:
> 8) We have had this kind of problem where I work. We found that no matter
> 8) what we did in the BIOS setup, we couldn't really turn the motherboard's
> 8) secondary IDE port off. If yours is the same, you've got a conflict and
> 8) can't use the port on the SB card.
> 
>         Say if the kernel can detect the IDE controller but result is
>         that the CD-Rom cannot be detected, then ?
> 
> Pun

No good. The system is actually detecting *two* IDE controllers on the
secondary port. You cannot successfully read two devices at the same
address.
-- 
Ken

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