second cd drive only detected occasonally

[frank brierley]

Lowell,
 
On the weekend I swapped the two drives, DVD becomes master and CD-RW 
becomes slave, also CD-RW goes to end of IDE ribbon and the problem seems 
to have resolved.  Thanks for your suggestion.
 
Frank

On 20 Jul 2003 20:33:44 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be- 
well.no-ip.com> wrote:

> frank brierley <frank_n_brierley at yahoo.com.au> writes:
>
>> I have a DVD drive as secondary slave (IDE) and a cd burner as
>> secondary master.  Both drives are detected by BIOS and by windows.
>> However freebsd assignes a device to the cd burner (samsung) only
>> every now and then.
>>
>> Checking dmesg and only acd0 will usually appear.  After a reboot
>> there is a fairly good chance that acd1 will appear.
>>
>> I've build and installed a current world and kernel cvsup 4.8
>> yesterday and changed the IDE ribbon.
>>
>> does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I'd be looking for timing problems.  Maybe try swapping the drives 
> between master and slave?
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