From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 13:10: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F349114EAD for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20096; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:09:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE can't see IDE CD-ROM on a Dell Poweredge 1300 In-Reply-To: <372717CE.CE5B2290@csl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Adam Nealis wrote: > The Poweredge has > > 1 SCSI disk > 1 IDE CD-ROM drive (it's a CDU701 - for what it's worth) > 1 set of 3.1-RELEASE from Walnut Creek > > Managed to boot off CD 1 of the distribution from the BIOS, > but 'BSD can't see the CD-ROM drive afterwards. Managed to > complete an install via an NFS-mounted CD-ROM, but again, > 'BSD can't see the CD-ROM. > > Kernel sees wdc0 OK. > > The manual claims the CD-ROM is ATAPI compliant. The CD-ROM > is the master device on wcd0. ^^^^^^ ?? No one uses this config. > I'm wondering what is going wrong. Would it make sense to > put an IDE hard disk on the same bus? Anyone else had/solved > this particular problem? Make the hard disk the master an the CDROM the slave. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message