On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jim Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW > > drive and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They > > give a message > > > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > > > during the boot. > > > > I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and > > different cables. The bios recognizes them as slaves. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > If you set something up as a slave, make sure that there is a master > on that bus.
Makes sense - BUT ... My AL440LX motherboard will not accept ANYTHING except ONE CDROM drive on secondary master. Secondary IDE slave is not accessable at all :-( I have no idea how to fix this. :-( -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
