Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD
Svein Halvor Halvorsen
svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net
Mon May 30 05:29:38 PDT 2005
* Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-05-29 10:28 -0700]
> According to the UDMA/66/100/133 standard [...]
:
> So yes, there is something wrong with a primary master and a secondary
> slave. Just because it works on a lot of motherboards, and just
> because it worked in the past on old incorrectly manufactured IDE
> cables, running in PIO mode, doesen't make it per-standard, and
> definitely doesen't make it right electrically if using CS, as per the
> standard. As I said already, motherboards take a lot of shortcuts and
> do a lot of non-standard things.
You are right, it's not a UDMA standard per se! And I was wrong to say
that there was *nothing* wrong with that setup. However, it was not
*entirely* wrong, either (allthough a peculiar setup). It's just that it's
always worked for me, but it seems I was lucky.
Btw, do you have any pointers to that standard?
And also; could you try to fix your line lenght problem?
Svein Halvor
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