yOn Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Xucaen wrote:
>
> --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato
> > and my cdrom seems to have the following
> > problems :
> > Most of the time I get errors like :
> >
> > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> >
>
> isn't the CD ROM drive supposed to be hdc?
<chalkboard moment>
/dev/hdX is defined by the relative position on the IDE chain(s)
hda: primary master
hdb: primary slave
hdc: secondary master
hdd: secondary slave
There is a possibility that you'll have hde and hdf, but that implies a
third IDE controller, which is a rarity (I've had one before, but the only
reason it got used was that I wanted to run the CD through a sound
card). Traditionally, the CD is the master on it's own chain, thus hdc on
a two chain system. There is no real reason for this: you could save on
cabling and make the CD the slave on the primary chain, thus hdb.
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