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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:40:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com>
To:        Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mitsumi CD problem during probe
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970122073249.2200A-100000@lugh.kerris.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.92.970122065319.25368A-100000@austral>

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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike Jeays wrote:

> > 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.
> >
> 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?)

Yes, there is.  I'll go through what you have below.  For some reason 
(after I sent the email out I went to do my first kernel rebuild) the 
wcd0 device is commented out along with the ATAPI option in my generic 
config.  I've commented them back in and done a rebuild, and though it 
DOES finally recognize the CD and mount it, it still does the pause.  As 
I say, I'll take a look at the stuff below.

> 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.

Cool.  I have another question, perhaps unrelated.  I've never tried 
installing a second hard drive, and find that I'm having difficulty doing 
so.  I've been told by some people that sysinstall is a more intuitive 
way of doing partition and filesystem creation but when I load it up, the 
mount points show <none> and the NFS column has a * in it.  I don't want 
to screw up my current HD and partitions.  Any ideas?

Mike.

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