Re: Machine lockup bug report.
Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:02:59 +0100
On Mon, Nov 08 1999, Gary Benson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:11:32PM +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> > > The CDROM is a Toshiba IDE drive, as slave. It is the only ide
> > > device in the system.
> >
> > if it's your only IDE device, it shouldn't be slave to start with. it
> > should be a master.
>
> I thought it only mattered if you had 2 devices on that bus. Is it not
> irrelevant with just one device?
Should not matter all that much, but ATAPI does state that if
you only have one device on a channel it should be master.
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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