Latest kernel couldn't probe DVD-Drive in Secondary/Slave

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Dec 7 13:09:15 PST 2003


On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro wrote:

> Hi.
>
>   After updating kernel in -current machine, DVD-Drive in ATA
> Secondary/Slave was not probed.
>
>   If I back out sys/dev/ata/ata-lowlevel.c rev. 1.24, I could probe
> it.
>
> # atacontrol list
> ATA channel 0:
>     Master:  ad0 <IC35L040AVER07-0/ER4OA46A> ATA/ATAPI rev 5
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 1:
>     Master:      no device present
>     Slave:  acd0 <IDE DVD-ROM 16X/V3.10> ATA/ATAPI rev 0  <-- not probed
> 						          with latest kernel

Note that in most cases, this is an unsupported configuration. Your CD
drive should be set to master/single.  Is there some reason you need it
set up this way?

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