ATA Slave Devices

[Vlad Tudorache]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Jim Chapman <jim.chapman at sympatico.ca> writes:
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>>I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive
>>and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a
>>message
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>>ATA identify retries exceeded
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>>during the boot.
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>>I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and
>>different cables. The bios recognizes them as slaves.
>>
>>Has anyone else experienced this problem?
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>If you set something up as a slave, make sure that there is a master
>on that bus.
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This happened to me, too. Even if you setup a master device on the same 
cable with the "pseudotroubled" one it won't work. I don't know why, but 
on my kernel from which I removed all SCSI support it then worked. For 
you, with a CDRW... if you remove SCSI support  (including ATAPICAM) the 
cdrdao will not work any more...
It seems a FreeBSD's problem with using removable ATAPI devices. The 
floppy controller behaves strangely with ACPI activated, for example... 
This is a minus for the FreeBSD, a very stable and secure system...