Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:09:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel Message-ID: <19990225140931.K52343@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990225010448.A335@enst.fr>; from Pierre Beyssac on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 01:04:48AM %2B0100 References: <19990224235117.A9283@enst.fr> <11472.919897269@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19990225010448.A335@enst.fr>
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On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 1:04:48 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >>> controller wdc1 [...] >>> disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 >>> disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 >> >> Um... Do you really have 4 wd devices plugged in? > > Uh, well, no, just 2 (on the first IDE controller). > >> Assuming you don't have 4 drives, I'd suggest you slave your ATAPI CDROM >> device on your primary IDE controller. So you'd do something like: > > Wow. Thanks a million! I didn't even have to go so far, I just > deleted wd2 and wd3 and acd0 now appears as if by magic. I can't > tell you how extremely stupid I now feel... You shouldn't do. What you did shouldn't have any effect on the problem. You may find that sometimes it gets recognized, other times it doesn't. FreeBSD still has difficulties with some ATAPI CD-ROM drives. If you continue to have trouble (and I suspect you will), you should enter a PR with send-pr or at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Make sure to give exact details of your hardware and software configuration. 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-current" in the body of the message
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