Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

[Wes Peters]

Chris wrote:
> 
> When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems.  I had a
> Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary
> master.  I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my
> CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller).  I never got
> a straight answer as to why it didnt work and why it shouldnt be changed
> or supported.  I did get an answer from someone that said that it should
> work in 3.0+, I tried and it didnt work. *shrug* probably just my mobo
> and FBSD didnt like each other in this regard.

Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE
controller.  You can't run a controller with just a slave.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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