Re: kern/46195: Unseen IDE CDROM drive on 6.0_BETA

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/46195; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/46195: Unseen IDE CDROM drive on 6.0_BETA
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:47:10 +0300

 > =A0It looks like your CD drive is configured as a slave without master
 > =A0on the same channel. This is not a recommended configuration for
 > =A0(P)ATA, I suggest configuring the CD drive as master.
 
 I'm shocked. Changing CDROM drive to "master" has solved the problem.
 Now it is recognized correctly. Could you please explain why it is not
 recommended
 to have "slave" devices without "master" and why hardware detection
 is implemented this way in NetBSD. I've never seen such behaviour before.