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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!ns1.aplatform.com!pagesat.net!news.stdio.com!heathers!biswick From: biswick@heathers.stdio.com (Chad Hall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem Date: 3 Nov 1996 08:47:26 GMT Organization: Open World Lines: 20 Message-ID: <55hm6u$38q@stargate.stdio.com> References: <5460pb$s9r@kirin.wwa.com> <54dfm0$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <55dv19$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: heathers.stdio.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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. :-/ This is apparently a Connor problem. A friend with a pair of connors could only get them to work when both were set as single. My own connor would also not work unless it thought it was single, and the seagate as master. Chad