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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 06:53:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACER CD910E/JAS IDE CDrom...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.980210065147.27554B-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <199802100717.IAA01018@sos.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote:

> In reply to The Hermit Hacker who wrote:
>  
> The problem is the '#' in front of all the lines in the section
> "I had", you have effectively disabled any ata/atapi support :)
> Or is this not an _exact_ copy of your config...

Sorry, when I did config the system, the commented lines were what was
uncommented, and the "And now have" didn't exist...if I had those lines
commented out, my system wouldn't have booted, as its an IDE system :)

> The CMD640 might very well be the help you needed...

	Okay, I'll try that out tonight then...see if taking it out
re-breaks it...


> 
> > 	Actually, not really the answer, but I did get it to work.  I
> > ended up downloading the boot.flp from the latest snapshot, then when that
> > worked, building a GENERIC kernel...and when that worked, copied in
> > anything that appeared pertinent...and now it works.
> > 
> > 	I had:
> > 
> > #controller     wdc0    at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0x00ffa004
> > vector wdintr
> > #disk           wd0     at wdc0 drive 0
> > #disk           wd1     at wdc0 drive 1
> > #options         ATAPI           #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> > #options         ATAPI_STATIC    #Don't do it as an LKM
> > #device          wcd0            #IDE CD-ROM
> > 
> > 	And now have:
> > 
> > options         "CMD640"        # work around CMD640 chip deficiency
> > controller      wdc0    at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
> > disk            wd0     at wdc0 drive 0
> > disk            wd1     at wdc0 drive 1
> > 
> > #controller     wdc1    at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
> > #disk           wd2     at wdc1 drive 0
> > #disk           wd3     at wdc1 drive 1
> > 
> > options         ATAPI           #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> > options         ATAPI_STATIC    #Don't do it as an LKM
> > device          wcd0            #IDE CD-ROM
> > 
> > 	I haven't investigated further, yet, about whether the problem is
> > the missing CMD640 or the flags setting on wdc0...before I go through
> > that, does anyone know if either should affect it?  If its something
> > known, no reason to go and test it...:)
> > 
> > Marc G. Fournier                                
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
>                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
> ..
> 


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