Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:22:33 -0600 From: Bruce Meehl <bruce@fixer.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CDROM doesn't work Message-ID: <357F1539.2F9C@fixer.com>
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I just purchased FreeBSD 2.2.6. I am running it on a Pentium P5T30-B4 mainboard with a 233MHZ CPU, with 2.5 gig IDE hard drive and Sony CDROM that uses the scd0 driver. I can't figure it out, but the CDROM does not work with this version. It has worked flawlessly on every FreeBSD release prior to this. In fact, just to be sure I reinstalled version 2.2.5 and sure enough it works there (the CDROM isn't broke). I am not new to FreeBSD. This is the 5th version of this product I have purchased. I have been using FreeBSD for 2.5 years. When I bought my first version (2.1.0) I found out my IDE CDROM was not compatible so I bought the Sony CDROM to run FreeBSD. When you boot off the install floppy with -c, it takes you to the configuration menu. I did ls and it returned the exact same thing that my 2.2.5 version did at this point. (2.2.5 works) If I install off a DOS partition (I only have 30Mgs of freespace on C:, FreeBSD doesn't see my other partitions), I can get a minimal installation to get it running. It does find the CDROM most of the time in the boot messages (but not always). Even when it does say the CDROM is found, on /stand/sysinstall it always says that the FreeBSD CDROM looks more like an audio CD and the installation stops there. If I try to mount the CDROM with 'mount /cdrom' it returns 'invalid argument' Using DOS partitions for FreeBSD is like going back in time a hundred years, and because of my limited space on my hard drive, I'm wondering if this is giving me more trouble (is something coming of the hard drive different than the CDROM?). I don't know. Anyhow, thanks in advance, if someone there has any ideas on what might be wrong, I would sure appreciate. Thanks, Bruce Meehl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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