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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem
Date: 1 Nov 1996 22:53:29 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski) wrote:

> I basically gave up and swapped the hard drives around again... so now it 
> works, with the seagate as master and the conner as the slave, with FBSD 
> on the slave.  Chalk it down to "get the right hardware next time" I 
> guess.

Problems like this were really common back in the earlier days of IDE,
and it eventually ended up in almost all drive vendors guaranteeing
support for master/slave combinations only for their own drives.

Maybe this has changed with the advent of ATAPI now, i simply don't
know since i refuse to buy them anymore. :-/

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)