From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 24 16:21: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B349C37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2P0Kpru083803; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:50:51 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: RE: my system doesn't recognize the two cd-rom units i have From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jorge Aldana Cc: Willie Viljoen , Razvan Cremenescu , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020324160310.X27945-100000@merckx.salk.edu> References: <20020324160310.X27945-100000@merckx.salk.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 25 Mar 2002 11:50:51 +1130 Message-Id: <1017015655.371.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5 required=5 X-Spam-Level: (-5) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 11:38, Jorge Aldana wrote: > Even more odd I made a boot CD of 4.5-20020322-STABLE and I was able to > boot from my IDE CD-ROM but then after I configured all the install settings I > picked DVC/CD-ROM as the install media and I got "CD-ROM not recongnized"? > > It obviously can see it as it booted up the CD to begin with, odd thing is it > can't see it after choosing the install settings, I didn't remove anything or > add anything from the default devices it uses on the initial boot up? > > Anyone else experiencing this? Soren's ATA MFC broke CDROM detection I believe. The BIOS still sees the CDROM so you can boot off it, but once the OS tries to detect it, it fails and so you are stuck in an odd position :) I believe he is working on a fix for it (and the panic on resume one) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message