From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 11:33:42 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 B07A214EEF for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:33:39 -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 LAA20830; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: stanislav shalunov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't mount CD-ROM (was: your mail) In-Reply-To: <199905061428.KAA90998@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 > > > 1. To what controller is your CDROM attached? Is it set master/single or > > slave? > > I tried both master and single. Slave for a single device doesn't > look right. It's not, that's why I asked. :) > Attaching the CD-ROM to ``the other'' controller (not the one it was > plugged in to when it came) then led to kernel not detecting any IDE > controllers. Are you using a Promise controller? > > 2. Why not use a SCSI CDROM? It's much more reliable than the cheap IDE > > ones floating around, and you already have the SCSI controller. > > Because that's how the system came and CD-ROM is only needed for > things like installation of packages and disaster recovery. Okay, just checking. My Toshiba PPro came with a IDE CD, but I bought a 24X SCSI cdrom anyways and love it. 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