From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 20:21:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16133 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 20:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16107 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 20:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA26268; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:50:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980528125041.I4179@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:50:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Wallis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: plextor SCSI cdrom References: <356CCBD7.DF1D922B@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <356CCBD7.DF1D922B@hotmail.com>; from Michael Wallis on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 09:28:39PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 May 1998 at 21:28:39 -0500, Michael Wallis wrote: > Hi, people-- > I seem to have a slight problem with FreeBSD version 2.2.6 seeing my > cdrom and tape drive. I have an Adaptec AHA-2940UW controller with a > Plextor 12x cdrom and Conner tape drive running off of it. NT sees > everything just fine, but when I boot from the cd to install BSD, it > probes the controller and finds nothing on any of the id's. It gets an > unknown response and says that the board is not responding. On the fifth > id it should find the cdrom, but it passes over it just like everything > else. The cables and termination are just fine. I can get as far as > selecting which media I want to install from, and when I select cdrom, > it simply says it can't find one. If anyone has any ideas, they'd be > appreciated. Let's see the dmesg output. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message