From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 21:49:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FED16A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6918F43FAF for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:49:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) h994lFVx022738; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F851358.5010102@ec.rr.com> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:50:48 -0700 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Cravey References: <20031008131802.R17436@www.gotbrains.org> In-Reply-To: <20031008131802.R17436@www.gotbrains.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LITE-ON cd-rw and 5.1-p10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 04:49:35 -0000 What about the master slave pins on the drives, are they set right? Also the cable is in correctly right? What are the bios settings? Jason Stephen Cravey wrote: >I've just cobbled together a new machine and purchased a LITE-ON >LTR-52327S CD-RW for it. FreeBSD, however, seems unable to detect the >drive. On boot, there is no acd device shown at all, however I do get an >ACPI error. (dmesg will follow) > >I can boot from the 5.1-R install CD with no problem, however when I >select cd/dvd as the install media, it claims that there is no dvd/cd >drive found!?!?!. I also get a 'drive full error usually when i boot from >CD and install from FTP as soon as the data starts writing to the hard >drive. The fdisk and newfs stages seem to complete normally prior to >this. I ended up installing from floppy. > >The seagate is the master and the lite-on is the slave on the primary bus. >I'm using a new ata 66/100/133 cable. I plan to get a second ata cable >this afternoon and try to put them on seperate busses, however i'm not >sure that's the problem. Any suggestions on what I should look for or >what might be wrong? Anything goes. > > >Thank you. > >-Stephen > >