Date: Wed, 18 Nov 98 09:16:53 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: matthew@sees.bangor.ac.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZIP drive and the CDROM Message-ID: <H000057c01a1dca3@MHS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811171112530.7696-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Matthew Williams wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have just added a zip drive to two machines in work. Both zip drives are sla > ves on the second IDE channel, the master being a CDROM. Under Windows 95 both w > ork fine. > > > > However, under FreeBSD 2.2.6, I can no longer mount the CDROM - the machine ju > st hangs and requires a hard reset to get it going again after I issue the mount > command. Is there something in the kernel configuration file that needs modifyi > ng to get it to work?? > > > > I am able to mount the zip drive using the wfd driver and it works fine. > > I'm not aware of any compatiblity issues between CDROMs and Zip drives... There are **definitely** problems with IDE CDROMs and ZIP on the same WD controller under 2.2.6 - Release. Grab updated versions of atapi.c and and atapi.h and recompile your kernel. better yet : cvsup to 2.2.whatever-is-Stable and make world. TfH > did you check your master/slave jumpers? > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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