Subhro Sankha Kar wrote:
Hello Folks,
I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I got a 40GB IDE Seagate Cheetah connected to
the Primary as the master and a Samsung CD-ROM SC-152C as a slave to the
Hard Drive. I have also got a Samsung CD Writer SW-212B connected to the
secondary controller as master. When I boot FreeBSD-4.7-Release it fails
to recognise my CDROM Drive. I can see entries like "ATA Device
Identification Retries Exceeded". Just for an experiment I tried to
connect the CDROM as a slave to the CD Writer on the Secondary. This
time it worked fine. I cant keep my CDROM and CDWRITER on the same
controller as I need to copy on-the-Fly. Can you please help me to make
my CDROM work as a slave to the HD?
Get a better CD ROM?
Search the list archives for threads on CD ROMs. I believe the upshot is
that many CD ROMs have badly implemented ATA interfaces that don't work
well with certain other interfaces. (i.e. You CD ROM works OK with a
CD burner that's only doing ATA 33, but can't function on a chain with
a HDD that's doing ATA 100)
The problem seems to be fairly common, it comes up on the list about once
a month. I've seen it a number of times as well, and the solution has
always been to move the CD ROM to the secondary chain. In your case,
moving to the secondary chain is a problem (I assume) because you want
to dup CDs at the max speed the burner will go. If you _need_ to have
it work, you'll either need a CD ROM that works with all other ATA devices,
or switch to SCSI devices.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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