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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD problems
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 22:55:44 GMT
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In article <31c85f89.1411820@news.winternet.com>, srose@winternet.com (Steve Rose) wrote:
>Richard Flinn <richardf@microware.com> wrote:
>
>>Is it possible to use my ATAPI cdrom configures as the master on the
>>second controller? I installed a minimal system from a DOS partition and
>>then re-compiled a kernel with wcd0 support, but it doesnt detect on
>>startup (although wdc1 is detected).
>>Thanks in advance.
>>-- 
>
>This is an excerpt from my kernel config, which is working fine for 2
>ATAPI CD's on the primary and secondary controllers. (I have SCSI hard
>disks)
>
>
>controller      wdc0    at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
>#disk           wd0     at wdc0 drive 0
>#disk           wd1     at wdc0 drive 1
>
>controller      wdc1    at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
>#disk           wd2     at wdc1 drive 0
>#disk           wd3     at wdc1 drive 1
>
># enabled support for ATAPI CD-ROM's on controller 0 and 1
>options          ATAPI   #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
>device          wcd0    #IDE CD-ROM
>device          wcd1    #IDE CD-ROM

Hmmm, that's interesting.  I have a generic dual-port EIDE controller, hard 
drive on port 1, CD on port 2, both master.  I left the first disk on each 
port enabled in my config (wd0 and wd2), with the ATAPI and wcd0 lines 
enabled as well, of course.

Works fine for me.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/