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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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