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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATAPI & CD-ROM as master Date: 28 Apr 1996 18:51:22 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4m0ena$1kt@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4lnrjk$fab@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com In article <4lnrjk$fab@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>, Rob van Vliet <rvv@IAEhv.nl> wrote: >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? I got that configuration to work by adding device wcd1 to my configuration. (I may not be correct on this, because I had to delete my FreeBSD partition, and so can't check). --Tim Smith