On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:04:27AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <v03130303b785e8ba4638@[192.168.0.201]>
> mw@blobulent.com writes:
> 
> > In the first generations of PowerMacs that had IDE busses, Apple didn't
> > intend to use the slave.  That's why they had two busses -- one for the
> > hard drive, and one for the cdrom.  Around the time of the Beige G3's
> > (ISTR), they changed their IDE chipset so that it could use slaves in
> > MacOS, and could boot from slaves.
> 
> I think it was not chipset problem but the firmware or OS problem.
> NetBSD could probe a disk at the slave on my Apus2000 while
> MacOS could not find it.

Yes, I've installed NetBSD on the slave drive, I just can't boot from it :(

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