Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:37:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: stanislav shalunov <shalunov@att.com> Cc: kstewart@3-cities.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't mount CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905061136360.25986-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905061604.MAA91543@tuzik.lz.att.com>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, stanislav shalunov wrote:
> > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
>
> > Did you turn the other IDE controller on in the bios. If you moved it
> > to the second controller, it wouldn't be active unless you made it so.
> > You have to change the setting for IDE to both and then auto dectect
> > the drive. It sounds like you made the one change but never changed
> > the setting from one IDE controller to two.
>
> BIOS currently detects the CD-ROM drive ("CD-ROM device" as master on
> primary IDE controller). Kernel currently detects the primary
> controller, and after a delay of several seconds skips to the message
> that secondary IDE controller is not found rather than printing a
> message about detected CD-ROM.
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.
Doug White
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