From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 14:32:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19480 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19443 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA15676; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:33:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Scott Muma cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up CDROM drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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