From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 2:42:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E9510E6A for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 10FFIV-0006DZ-00; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:42:39 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id KAA02389; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:42:05 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05086; Tue, 23 Feb 99 10:42:04 GMT Message-Id: <36D285F8.CB1A7DA@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:42:00 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: chris/reman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM detection problems References: <36D23C91.F39053E9@student.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chris/reman wrote: > > I insert FreeBSD 2.2.6 CDROM, ATAPI boot works and sysinstall is started > from the CDROM. Go straight into probe. wd0 is detected along with the > hard drive. however when we get to wd1 it is not detected at all. I > have tried setting flags, rebooting from dos etc etc. It detects under > linux and win95. > There is a bug in the ATAPI driver in 2.2.6 that causes detection problems. You need to install from a DOS partition or FTP, d/l the updated file(s) and rebuild the kernel, or install a later release. > I have searched the PR's and the mailing list search is not available. > Is this just related to the BH6? do I need to upgrade to >2.2.6. The > cdrom has worked fine on my old TX motherboard and under 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 > I didn't use 2.2.6 myself so I can't be more specific (exact filenames etc.). Try the mail archives again (the non-availability must have been temporary). Search for ATAPI and 2.2.6, there were lots of messages about this problem. HTH -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message