Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:50:48 -0700 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Stephen Cravey <clists@www.gotbrains.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LITE-ON cd-rw and 5.1-p10 Message-ID: <3F851358.5010102@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20031008131802.R17436@www.gotbrains.org> References: <20031008131802.R17436@www.gotbrains.org>
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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 > >
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