Re: Pioneer DVD-writer using 4.2. wants to be 'Master'

Tom & Elke Butz wrote:
> Just to let you know that I've fixed a very old problem, where
> OpenBSD wouldn't support a DVD-writer (Pioneer) whereas FreeBSD/
> NetBSD/DSL/SlackWare etc did.
> 
> Apparently it wanted to be jumpered as 'Master': now it works well under
> OpenBSD 4.2. - plus all the others mentioned above.
> 
> Tom Butz, New Zealand.

I'd suggest considering this nonsense, unless real info is provided.
Lots of us have run various devices as slave devices without issue.

I suspect you have a Dell system.
For whatever reason, many Dells (and probably others) disable an IDE
port if no device is found at "master", they never bother to check
if there is a "slave" device in place.  OpenBSD doesn't alter the
system configuration, other OSs may.

Nick.