Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:24:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tony Simaz <tony@michiganpizzahut.com> Cc: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only CD on IDE w/ SCSI disk? Message-ID: <19990203082450.M1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902020831001.7092-100000@nyx.michiganpizzahut.com>; from Tony Simaz on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:35:48AM -0500 References: <19990202155258.R76680@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902020831001.7092-100000@nyx.michiganpizzahut.com>
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On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 8:35:48 -0500, Tony Simaz wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 21:19:55 -0800, Castor Fu wrote: >>> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 20:19:59 -0800, Castor Fu wrote: >>>>> I have a system with an ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive (Lucky Goldstar CRD-8322B), >>>>> and a SCSI hard disk off a Diamond Fireport 40 controller. >>>>> >>>>> When I try booting off a FreeBSD-2.2.8 installation CD, the kernel >>>>> doesn't detect the IDE CD-ROM unless I also hook up an IDE Disk. >>>>> >>>>> I've tried using the "Cable Select", "Master" and "Slave" settings >>>>> on the drive, and they all fail. When using "Cable Select" or "Master" the IDE >>>>> controller is detected but the drive is not. With the "Slave" setting, >>>>> the controller is not detected at all. >>>>> >>>>> Should FreeBSD-2.x be able to work with just one IDE device which is a >>>>> CD-ROM? >>>> >>>> It should be able to, but it's a weak area. Is it possible that your >>>> CD-ROM should be jumpered for neither master nor slave when it's by >>>> itself? Probably the easiest thing to do is to download the 3.0 boot >>>> disk; you don't need to install 3.0, but it'll tell you if it finds >>>> the CD-ROM or not. >>> >>> I assumed that the "Cable Select" position was equivalent to neither >>> master nor slave. Booting with the FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE boot floppy doesn't >>> detect the CD-ROM drive either. Is the new Atapi-CD driver likely to >>> change things? >> >> I believe the new driver is already there in 3.0-RELEASE. This looks >> like bad news. >> >>> Linux works just fine in this configuration. >> >> That at least confirms that you have the jumpers set correctly. I'll >> check who's supporting this stuff. > > I have this same configuration on a Toshiba Pentium Pro with a Adaptec > 2940 onboard adapter. I'm currently running 2.2.8 on four of these beasts > and never had a problem with installion. How close is the configuration? Are you also using a Lucky Goldstar CRD-8322B on its own on the controller? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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