From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 12: 8:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA421532D for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19042; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:08:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: stanislav shalunov Cc: kstewart@3-cities.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't mount CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <199905062110.RAA92403@tuzik.lz.att.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 May 1999, stanislav shalunov wrote: > > From: Doug White > > > Do you have a spare IDE hard disk laying around? The IDE probe isn't too > > reliable, and putting a disk on there may help. > > At last I surrendered and got a different CDROM drive. And it worked. > > That ``bad'' drive works with non-FreeBSD systems, so I don't really > know what's causing this, but really looks like it's the FreeBSD IDE > probe that is at fault. The IDE probe is hard to do; I know of three iterations it's goine through and it still isn't reliable. We should all know by now that IDE hardware sucks, SCSI and FireWire are the future, and I will rule the world. :) 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