From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 22 03:59:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA00177 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 03:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA00171 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 03:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA01446; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:00:06 -0500 Received: from stcinet.statcan.ca(142.206.128.146) by stcgate via smap (V1.3) id sma001424; Wed Jan 22 11:59:33 1997 Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA01700; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:00:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 06:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Jeays X-Sender: jeays@austral To: Mike Kerr cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD problem during probe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike Kerr wrote: > > Howdy, > > I have been successful at installing freebsd on my system using a Mitsumi > 8x CDROM. My problem now is that I can't get it to mount properly. For > some reason it doesn't show up in the probe. > > It's an IDE drive, connected to the second IDE port on my motherbaord. > Alternately, I've connected it as the slave on the first port. Neither > configurations work. This is perplexing given that it was able to probe > it fine during the installation process. I'm pretty much at a loss as to > what to do about this. Does anybody have any suggestions as to a > solution, or has anybody come across this before? > > Mike. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr > Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/ > mkerr@kerris.com | Web Guy, etc. > > I had all sorts of similar troubles with 2.1.5, and eventually found that the following snippet from the kernel config file works well. There is a long pause during the probe on the second controller (about 30 seconds?) controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr # disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 # disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM I have now installed the 2.2-BETA, and the boot floppy finds the CD-ROM correctly, and the default kernel also worked for me.