Biju Susmer wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this
> configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration?
> When i was using 2.2.7-stable, FBSD used to recognize my CDROM *sometimes* as
> slave, not always.
Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why
should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured
hardware?
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