Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:58:50 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem Detecting IDE CDROM in 3.1-Stable Message-ID: <36F1CB7A.563E86AF@seattleu.edu> References: <19990318190452.A30629@intrepid.net>
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Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > > I have a problem/question that hopefully will have an easy resolution. > > The machine in question is running 3.1-stable, and it is not seeing > my IDE CDROM. The CDROM is configured as the slave on the primary > channel, and the kernel is seeing the IDE controller: > > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > chip0: <Intel 82443BX host to PCI bridge> rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 > chip1: <Intel 82443BX host to AGP bridge> rev 0x02 on pci0.1.0 > chip2: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x02 on pci0.7.0 > ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.1 > > (this is the only IDE device by the way). > > I have the kernel configured for IDE CDROMs are far as I can tell: > > options ATAPI > options ATAPI_STATIC > device acd0 > > but it's not being seen on bootup. That's not surprising, though, > as the "IDE" controller (wdc0) isn't being seen either. I've tried > configuring the kernel wdc0 many ways, including with 0x2000 set in the > flags to try to force the probing, but to no avail. > > I imagine that I'm doing something silly... > > Thanks in advance! This really is a questions geared towards -questions, so I removed the crosspost. Are you sure you've enabled your IDE controller in BIOS? If your IDE-CDROM is your only IDE device it may have been turned off. Also check to make sure it is probed by BIOS, and try moving it to primay master. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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