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From: Jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 15:38:44 -0500
Organization: Crystal Wind Communications
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References: <5460pb$s9r@kirin.wwa.com> <54dfm0$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <55dv19$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> <55hm6u$38q@stargate.stdio.com>
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To: Chad Hall <biswick@heathers.stdio.com>
Chad Hall wrote:
>
> 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.
I think Connor is|was the odd man out. I had a Western Digital that had
jumper settings for `master', `slave', and get along with a Connor.
--
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