Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:02:59 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Machine lockup bug report. |
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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.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * http://www.kernel.dk
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