Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Scott Muma <muma@sask.trlabs.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up CDROM drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960603143046.15423H-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960531144751.12961A-100000@salph3.sask.trlabs.ca>
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On Fri, 31 May 1996, Scott Muma wrote: > We have succeeded in installing FreeBSD, but we can't get it to > recognize our CDROM drive. How should it be configured? We have a 2.1G > hard drive as the master on HDD1 controller and we aren't sure if the > hard drive should be acting as master with the CDROM as slave, or if the > CDROM is supposed to be mater on HDD2 controller. I read that FreeBSD > doesn't support EIDE, does that mean everything must be on HDD1 or just > that EIDE functions aren't available? To clarify, FreeBSD doesn't have special support for EIDE. It will use EIDE-compliant disks just fine. Your only problem is that you can't boot if the root partition isn't completely below 1024 cylinders, about 520MB. > Anyway, my main concern is how should we configure the hardware of the CD > and hard disk so that FreeBSD will recognize that there is a CDROM drive? I see HD master, CD slave. If that doesn't work with the ATAPI.FLP image then try putting each on a separate controller. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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