On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John wrote: > I get > Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl /kernel: ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > > I've looked at the sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c code - I wonder if I should > just arbitarily raise the retry count a bit - what's everyone else
ok, i don't know if this is documented anywhere, but i've never managed to get freebsd to boot off a slave cdrom. i've always had to jumper the ide devices to put the cdrom on as the master device on that particular bus. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"