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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <55dv19$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5460pb$s9r@kirin.wwa.com> <54dfm0$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54k17r$qot@kirin.wwa.com> <54m6vk$s7t@uriah.heep.sax.de> <555rf5$6ek@kirin.wwa.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. ;-)