New CD-ROM drive causes kernel panic

[thebs413 at earthlink.net (Bryan J. Smith)]

Alfred von Campe <alfred@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> But I do have a master drive on that channel.  Like I
> mentioned before, there are two hard disks in /dev/hd{a,c},
> and the CD-ROM is / dev/hdb (like I suspected).

That's never a good idea -- both performance and
stability-wise.
When you have a DMA ATA device, put it on its own channel.
The master/slave design was for old EIDE using PIO ATA.


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