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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.xnet.com!news-admin From: sonntag@xnet.com (Jon Sonntag) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE cdrom question Date: 14 Oct 1996 04:02:13 GMT Organization: Jon's WARPed PC Lines: 31 Message-ID: <53se05$pt2@flood.xnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonntag.xnet.com X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.2] In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.961011214819.4158A-100000@darkstar> - Charles Mott <c mott@srv.net> writes: :> :>I'm going to be getting a P133 that will run both NT 4.0 and FreeBSD. :>When I get the computer, it will have two hard drives attached to IDE :>controller 0, and the CDROM connected to IDE controller 1. Will this :>work out of the box for FreeBSD, or will I have to make changes? What is :>the simplest think I can do. :> :>Hypothetical situations: :> :> (1) cdrom changed to slave: will this work for NT as well as FreeBSD? :> :> (2) cdrom made slave on controller 0, and one hard drive moved to :> controller 1. :> I had to go with #2. HD1 master on controller 0, CD slave on controller 0, HD2 on controller 1. In this configuration, I also had to install FreeBSD on HD1. The install would always hang when installing to HD2. Note: I could get FreeBSD loaded on HD2 when it was hooked up as the slave on controller 0. However, it wouldn't see the CDROM on controller 1, even when set as a master device w/o a hard disk installed on the controller as well. Jon Sonntag PC Services Manager ANTEC - Rolling Meadows, IL sonntag@xnet.com