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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.sojourn.com!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!arcom.rcom.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!Gamma.RU!srcc!TSR.RU!TSR.RU!newsserv From: may@mostel.tsr.ru (Shurik Anikin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATAPI & CD-ROM as master Date: 26 Apr 1996 09:54:23 +0400 Organization: TeleCom Service, Ltd. Lines: 29 Distribution: all Message-ID: <4lpoef$o6l@mostel.tsr.ru> References: <4lnrjk$fab@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: mostel.tsr.ru X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Rob van Vliet (rvv@IAEhv.nl) wrote: > Hi, > 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? There is way, to resolve your problems. Put on First IDE controller Hard Disk as master, and CD-ROM as slave. Put on second ide controller your second hard disk. > Thanx! > Rob > -- > Rob van Vliet Tel: +31-(0)40-2119541 > Leliestraat 1 Fax: +31-(0)40-2435729 > 5615 BK EINDHOVEN E-mail: rvv@iaehv.nl > THE NETHERLANDS URL: http://www.iaehv.nl/users/rvv -- Аникин Александр may@TSR.ru Shurik.Anikin@f48.n1.z963.viwanet.ru