From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 23 09:07:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10931 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Pooh.cps.com (Pooh.CPS.com [139.146.42.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA10914; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rhg@localhost) by Pooh.cps.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA16463; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:05:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199706231605.LAA16463@Pooh.cps.com> Subject: Re: NEC 6030X, FreeBSD 2.2.2, and the CDROM To: tweten@frihet.com Date: Mon, 23 Jun 97 11:05:00 CDT From: "Richard H. Gumpertz" Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199706221048.DAA09907@ns.frihet.com>; from "David E. Tweten" at Jun 22, 97 3:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL6] Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was trying to solve my problem the hard way. I was accepting the disk > device name change and looking for a way to cope with it. One of the many > times I inserted and removed the CD drive this evening, I noticed a tiny slide > switch on the back, labeled with an "S" on one side and with an unreadable > smudge on the other. It was set to smudge. After switching it to "S," the > device probe turned into > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > wd0: 1378MB (2822400 sectors), 2800 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): wcd0: 1033Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 255 volume levels, ejectable tray > > Problem solved. Thank you for inspiring me. Sometimes all one needs is to > talk (or type) about it. In other words, smudge probably said something like M (for master) and you needed S (for slave). The CD was responding to the same commands as the HD... -- ============================================================================= |Richard H. Gumpertz rhg@CPS.COM VOICE: (913) 642-1777 FAX: (913) 642-8777| |Computer Problem Solving 4518 W 89th St, Ste 220, Prairie Vlg KS 66207-2293| =============================================================================