Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD
Svein Halvor Halvorsen
svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net
Mon May 30 05:21:13 PDT 2005
* Erik Trulsson [2005-05-29 14:09 +0200]
> Although it is theoretically fine to have just a slave device on an IDE
> channel without a master device, that configuration fails to work in
> many cases. If it fails to work it is probably a bug in some component
> of the system, but that doesn't help the person having the problem.
>
> If you have just a single IDE device on an IDE channel it should be
> configured as master, not as slave. Having it configured as slave is
> supposed to work, but often does not work and is therefore not
> recommended.
It seems you are right!
However, there should be no need for a slave-only setup anyway.
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