Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:09:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE can't see IDE CD-ROM on a Dell Poweredge 1300 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904281309250.19307-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <372717CE.CE5B2290@csl.com>
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Adam Nealis wrote:
> The Poweredge has
>
> 1 SCSI disk
> 1 IDE CD-ROM drive (it's a CDU701 - for what it's worth)
> 1 set of 3.1-RELEASE from Walnut Creek
>
> Managed to boot off CD 1 of the distribution from the BIOS,
> but 'BSD can't see the CD-ROM drive afterwards. Managed to
> complete an install via an NFS-mounted CD-ROM, but again,
> 'BSD can't see the CD-ROM.
>
> Kernel sees wdc0 OK.
>
> The manual claims the CD-ROM is ATAPI compliant. The CD-ROM
> is the master device on wcd0.
^^^^^^ ?? No one uses this config.
> I'm wondering what is going wrong. Would it make sense to
> put an IDE hard disk on the same bus? Anyone else had/solved
> this particular problem?
Make the hard disk the master an the CDROM the slave.
Doug White
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