Re: IDE cdrom
No, the drive is definately set up as the only device on the controller.
The cdrom can be jumpered for only device, master, or slave, and it's
jumpered for only device.
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Steven Bolt wrote:
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> On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
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> > I've got a chinnon IDE cdrom, and I have to put hdc=cdrom in as
> > a parameter at boot time to make it recognize my drive. However, it
> > recognizes it as /dev/hdd, not hdc. The drive is the first (Only) device
> > on the secondary ide controller, and I must specify hdc=cdrom for it to
> > work. If I say hdd=cdrom it won't find it. It's not a major concern right
> > now, but if I ever add a third hard drive, I can see potential conflict
> > problems... Anybody know if I'm doing something wrong?
>
> hda and hdb are first and second (master and slave) on the primary ide
> channel. hdc and hdd play the same roles on the secondary. This would
> imply that your cd-drive is jumpered as slave, which is wrong and
> shouldn't work at all (except in dos :)
> So you may want to check the docs and jumper. cd-drives are often
> jumpered as slave by default, for easy connection to the same cable
> as the (one) hd in most machines.
> Adding a third hd may cause problems. Before buying you may want to
> check this with an old or borrowed drive. If you do that, jumper it as
> master and make the cd-drive a slave. You will be testing not only for
> recognition, but also for power supply and cooling problems.
>
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