ATA Slave Devices

[Lowell Gilbert]

Jim Chapman <jim.chapman at sympatico.ca> 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 masters and slaves and
> different cables. The bios recognizes them as slaves.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?

If you set something up as a slave, make sure that there is a master
on that bus.