On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 09:28:52PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > : I have connected the cdrom to the secondary channel as a slave drive and > : everything works. I have hard disk on primary ( master) and no other > : devices are connected to the controller. > > This is not a valid configuration - you cannot have an IDE channel with > a slave device and no master (Windows allows this, but it's not in the > IDE spec)
Maybe not, but it usually works just fine with linux too. In my desktop, hda and hdb are disks and hdd is the CD-ROM. No point in changing it, since it works (and I would have to muck around with the DOS drivers). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
