From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 19 9:35:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.telecom.at (gandalf.telecom.at [194.118.26.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D989414EA4 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Markus.Minihold@telecom.at) Received: from lergontr.server.lan.at (lergonrsm.server.lan.at [10.3.101.84]) by gandalf.telecom.at (xxx/xxx) with ESMTP id SAA136912; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:34:05 +0200 Received: from rtrsco.bahq.co.at (rtrsco.bahq.co.at [10.1.1.180]) by lergontr.server.lan.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA05642; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:28:41 +0200 Message-ID: <37BC307E.26ECDB5E@telecom.at> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:27:42 +0200 From: Markus Minihold X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI CD not dedected References: <37BBAF0F.46AB0E08@telecom.at> <14268.8841.35378.369275@trooper.velocet.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Markus Minihold Tel: +43-1-21717-56108 P.O. Box 50.000 Fax: +43-1-21717-51222 1011 Vienna Email: Markus.Minihold@telecom.at Austria ************************************************************* You can still escape from the GATES of hell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message