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Date:      Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Matthew J. Gentner" <gentnem@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CD ROM installation..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727210851.6107E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970727224701.10916A-100000@demeter.sunyit.edu>

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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Matthew J. Gentner wrote:

> Do you have any troubleshooting tips for getting a CD-ROM install of
> freeBSD 2.2.2 (Walnut Creek CD's) to roll??
> 
> My CD-ROM is a Panasonic IDE/ATAPI jobber, I've tried it on the primary
> and secondary IDE controllers, both as master and slave.  In the readme
> files it was mentioned to try setting it's port to -1..  Apparently, the
> probe is supposed to move upward from there.  It's impossible to set the
> port address to -1 though (I tried '1' anyway).

The ATAPI CDs are hard to probe.  It may be that your drive isn't very
cooperative.  Unfortunately there isn't much we can do for that (unless
you want to hack on the wcd driver yourself :) ).  

> How do you PROs do it??  Any clue would be appreciated.

The Pros use SCSI :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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