Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:27:42 +0200 From: Markus Minihold <Markus.Minihold@telecom.at> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI CD not dedected Message-ID: <37BC307E.26ECDB5E@telecom.at> References: <37BBAF0F.46AB0E08@telecom.at> <14268.8841.35378.369275@trooper.velocet.ca>
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David Gilbert wrote:
>
> 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.
in the meantime I've installed on the remaining diskspace (5GB for
FreeBSD and 4GB for Linux) Linux, which dedected the ATAPI CD as
secondary master without problems. I'll change some hardware settings
now, CD will become secondary slave and primary slave. Perhaps this will
help.
Markus.
>
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