Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:08:44 -0500 From: Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> To: samuel <SAMIGWE@worldnet.att.net> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI (yet again) Message-ID: <35575ACC.43473E3C@acm.org> References: <3557350A.6728D695@acm.org> <355740B2.5A345874@worldnet.att.net>
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samuel wrote: > > Gabor Kincses wrote: > > > > OK, I took the CDs and a boot floppy (all 2.2.5) to my friends' house to > > install FreeBSD on their brand new Dell box. > > > > As it turns out they have a 6.4G as primary master and an ATAPI CD-ROM > > device as secondary master. There is also an ATAPI ZIP in it (the BIOS > > didn't report its location). The wcd0 probe was hanging quite a bit and > > in the end the CD-ROM wasn't recognized. > > > > Since I can't just rejumper and rewire their brand new computer without > > them throwing me out, I'm stuck. They'd like FreeBSD, but they don't > > understand the benefits, yet, so at this point this is a very hard > > sell. Would 2.2.6 be a cure for this? > > > > Thanks, > > At the expense of stating the obvious, is the secondary ide port > available and enabled in the system BIOS. the problem may just be > something as simple as entering the BIOS and enabling the secondary > port(ide). I faced a similar problem with my system. I foolishly forgot > to enable the secondary port and Freebsd skipped the ide cdrom > (secondary master ) initilization. Since the CD-ROM works in W95 (which uses the BIOS) and I saw it show up during the BIOS' detection, I assume the secondary channel is enabled. I'll take a look at the exact setup again. I think I just gave up a little too quickly. Thanks for the response, the point seems to be that it SHOULD be found as secondary master, although as the other reply suggests a primary slave might be helpful. I'll probably just donate my 540MB drive to my friends with 2.2.6 preinstalled, since there is no AGP support in the X included with 2.2.5 anyway. -- Gabor Kincses (gabor@acm.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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