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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.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!news.radio.cz!btnet-feed3!unlisys!cs.tu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A few newbie questions hoping to get solved Date: 10 Jun 1997 23:32:16 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.2.1), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 33 Message-ID: <slrn5prp00.9i.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970610100135.185A-100000@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg> <5njj36$dnh@news.gvsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42792 behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens): > Tan Juay Kwang (tanjk@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg) wrote: > > : wdc1 not found at 0x170 > : [my IDE CD-ROM is on the secondary master] > > : Wondering if this could be the source of the problem since it cannot see > : the secondary IDE controller. Whenever I try to "mount -t cd9660 Definitely. If the CD-ROM drive was found you'd see an appropriate probe message right after wdc1 similar to the wdc0/wd0 lines. > AFAIK, the only place an IDE CD-ROM will be recognized is as the primary > slave drive. And then it's not always perfect :) This may have been true with 2.1.x but not with 2.2.x which even recognized my CD-ROM drive when I had it connected to my soundcard's IDE-port when I transitioned from 2.1.0 to 2.2.1 and another disk. While we're at it, currently I've put the CD-ROM drive into my new toy box which has two IDE channels on board, so I decided to put the CD on channel 2. wdc1 is found during the probes, but the CD-ROM isn't recognized. Probing takes a really long time, though. For the time being I keep my 2.1.0 installation on that machines disk. Will I degrade performance a lot if I put the CD-ROM as slave on wdc0 ? Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)