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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM through SB 16 IDE controller Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:25:51 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <324E86EF.522E@www.play-hookey.com> References: <52ji5c$8jh@eirene.wingnet.net> <324D7279.713A@www.play-hookey.com> <52li33$g44@ustsu10.ust.hk> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Chiu Wai Pun, m^_^m (ykmpm) wrote: > > Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote: > 8) We have had this kind of problem where I work. We found that no matter > 8) what we did in the BIOS setup, we couldn't really turn the motherboard's > 8) secondary IDE port off. If yours is the same, you've got a conflict and > 8) can't use the port on the SB card. > > Say if the kernel can detect the IDE controller but result is > that the CD-Rom cannot be detected, then ? > > Pun No good. The system is actually detecting *two* IDE controllers on the secondary port. You cannot successfully read two devices at the same address. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |