From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 11:38: 6 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 1EC4C15A57 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:37:32 -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 LAA22151; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:37:26 -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: <199905061604.MAA91543@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: Kent Stewart > > > 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 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