Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-28 Thread Aaron P. Martinez
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:04, Jim Chapman wrote: > 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 > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > during the boot. > > I have tried different combinations of

Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-28 Thread Vlad Tudorache
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jim Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 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 ATA identify retries exceeded during the boot. I have tried different combinations of mas

Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Subhro
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:28:41 -0400, Brian Astill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Makes sense - BUT ... > My AL440LX motherboard will not accept ANYTHING except ONE CDROM drive > on secondary master. Secondary IDE slave is not accessable at all :-

Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jim Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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 > > > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > > > du

Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > during the boot. > > I have tried different combinations of master

ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Jim Chapman
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 ATA identify retries exceeded during the boot. I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and different cables. The bios recognizes them