Re: Strange PEER error with Dani's 506 1.81 generic question

Mike Luther wrote:

Binkgo! More useful news!

Will Honea wrote:

I think it was fixed somewhere in the Warp 4 fixpacks. I haven't seen
any problems in a while other than the hassle you get into with one drive
on channel 0 with no slave then both a master and a slave on channel 1 -
that hole in the the link seems to cause trouble, but the lack of a true
master
on channel 1 is allowed. I think it was bogus to begin with as the ATA
CDROM drives were not truly master/slave capable anywho.

Master on 0 and Master CDROM and Slave DVD burner on 1 is exactly how this
research IDE box is configured. After thinking about what you posted,
since nothing is done to write to the CDROM which is the master now, would
I be better off moving the CDROM as read-only device to the Slave on 0 and
the DVD burner to Master on 1?

What are the details on the 'hassle' you get into described above? If you
would be so kind to teach some more to some of us here?

More curiosity here. In the case of the IBM ThinkPads, how is the
CD-RW/DVD read only factory tray actually configured vs. the hard drive
and the
'controller' or 'controllers' in them? And does your 'hassle' also apply
to SATA stuff, with perhaps just one IDE controller like the Intel 915G
series
motherboards? Just thinking ahead and trying to put all this together
toward applying all this to Dani's driver work as well.

Thanks!

Mike, I think this is water under the bridge for reasonably current
machines. To the best of my memory (suspect!) the problem actually came
from the BIOS enumeration where the OS/2 enumeration of drives wound up
off-by-one and the infamous "can't operate your drive" popped up. Right in
front of me is a machine with 4 ATA ports (2 channels), 2 SATA channels, 8
USB ports, and 4 card reader channels. Everything seems to be getting
sorted out - even by eCS, so I think that the problem has been fixed but I
suspect that it was by use of modern BIOS logicl more than anything.

My R30 has the hard drive as master on channel 0, the CDROM as master on
channel 1.

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