Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD

Sun May 29 04:49:26 PDT 2005

* Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-05-29 00:05 -0700]
>  Wrong.  Each IDE cable can have 2 devices a master and a slave.  So if 
>  you have 2 IDE controllers you can have master, slave, master, slave 
>  for a total of 4 drives.
>  
>  It is not master on ide cable 1, slave on ide cable 2.

There's nothing wrong with having a primary master and a secondary slave, 
just as much as there is nothing wrong with the setup you proposes.