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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news.net99.net!misery.millcomm.com!usenet From: John Nistler <nistler@millcomm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM works ? (Re: Gateway-2000's) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 09:18:44 -0600 Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <312F2C54.5CD0@millcomm.com> References: <221ba367.4d502@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> <31294AFF.4B55@millcomm.com> <4ghp82$2jt@Mars.mcs.com> <4gl5al$ndh@comet2.magicnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.millcomm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) To: Dan Benjamin <dpb@magicnet.net> I wrote: > >: > > yes, but to get the ide cdrom to work, I had to move it from the > >: > > second ide controller to the first controller. Change the hard disk to > >: > > be master and the cdrom drive to be slave. Dan wrote: > Now, if I run out and buy an IDE CD-ROM, stick it on the primary drive > controller and put the HD on the secondary, it's gonna work???? > > I have only 1 controller, that can run 4 drives . . . > > TIA! > > -Dan Hey Dan, Just to be clear up some miscommunication here. My original setup: IDE Controller 1 Harddrive in single device mode IDE Controller 2 CD-ROM in single device mode My working setup: IDE Controller 1 Harddrive configured as master CD-ROM configured as slave IDE Controller 2 Nothing attached currently Hope that clears things up. -John Nistler