Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD

[dick hoogendijk]

On Sun, 29 May 2005 13:49:21 +0200 (CEST)
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:

> 
> * 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.

Having a slave without a master won't work! There has to be a master on
an IDE cable. I have never seen it work otherwise. What is the point of
setting the device to a slave device if it's the only device on the
cable anyhow?

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