ATA Slave Devices

Brian Astill bastill at adam.com.au
Wed Oct 27 17:55:38 PDT 2004


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Jim Chapman <jim.chapman at sympatico.ca> 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


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