On Sun, 29 May 2005 13:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > * Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-05-29 00:05 -0700] > > Wrong. Each IDE cable can have 2 devices a master and a slave. So > > if you have 2 IDE controllers you can have master, slave, master, > > slave for a total of 4 drives. > > > > It is not master on ide cable 1, slave on ide cable 2. > > > There's nothing wrong with having a primary master and a secondary > slave, just as much as there is nothing wrong with the setup you > proposes.
Having a slave without a master won't work! There has to be a master on an IDE cable. I have never seen it work otherwise. What is the point of setting the device to a slave device if it's the only device on the cable anyhow? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
