On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > Nope, it's not a Sparc thing, it's an IDE thing. Maybe it depends on > the motherboard, but just last week I was building a OpenBSD box out of > spare parts that wouldn't boot because the CD on the second IDE was > jumpered as a master.
It's not an IDE thing, it's a CDROM thing. Some just don't want to be masters. I don't know why they even have jumpers. Others are OK being masters. I think most recent drives can handle being masters, but I could be wrong. In my experience it's pretty much a toss-up whether a given drive will work when jumpered as master. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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