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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: atapi cdrom support
Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:58:29 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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References: <32EFD61F.5925@hem.passagen.se> <32F0DFF7.167EB0E7@acm.org> <32F22BFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com>
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In article <32F22BFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com>,
Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote:
>tom@bu.edu says:
>> Make sure it is configured as the MASTER drive.
>> If it is the slave and no master on the 2nd controller you may have
>> a problem.
>gabor@acm.org says:
>> Yeah. Make it the slave device on the
>> primary IDE channel. I gather you have
>> it as master/single device on the
>> secondary IDE channel.
>What's wrong with this picture?
I'd have to agree with Tom; i have my ATAPI CDROM set as the master on
my secondary IDE controller, and most people who've had problems with
ATAPI CDROMs have had them as slaves.
rone
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