From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 19 8:28:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (host-034.canadiantire.ca [209.146.201.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22928150B0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.ca) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA74024; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:28:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14268.8841.35378.369275@trooper.velocet.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:28:09 -0400 (EDT) To: Markus Minihold Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ATAPI CD not dedected In-Reply-To: <37BBAF0F.46AB0E08@telecom.at> References: <37BBAF0F.46AB0E08@telecom.at> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Minihold writes: Markus> I've problems installing FreeBSD 3.2 on a computer using only Markus> IDE drives. I've one harddisk and one cdrom. Markus> The HD is the primary device on first IDE controller, the Markus> ATAPI-CD is the primary device on secondary IDE Markus> controller. During bootup, the HD is dedected but the CD Markus> isn't. The second IDE controller is probed for a longer time Markus> but no device is dedected. Therefore the installation process Markus> fails. Markus> Could someone please give me some hints to fix this problem. Does the BIOS detect it? I have had several problems with various motherboard where the BIOS would not detect a primary IDE CDROM (but would detect a secondary). Contrary to common sense, you can have a secondary without a primary --- and this often works for those BIOSs. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message