From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 10: 1: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A86914E7E for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA32233; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:01:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:01:03 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: "Zuidam, Hans" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: CD-ROM and Compaq Deskpro EN In-Reply-To: <9B7E8CE3E214D311A3050008C7A4BDDB9346B3@nlehx061.ehvvon.nl.origin-it.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Zuidam, Hans wrote: > Hi, > > I'm more or less at my witt's end trying to get the CD-ROM drive > going on a Compaq Deskpro. I've jumpered such that it is the master > device. Below is the (partial) configuration of the machine. One > way or another, the device is recognised but trying to mount a CD > results in a temporary lockup of the machine and the kernel messages > about the controller not ready for commands. > > Anyone an idea on how to proceed? Thanks in advance, Make it the primary slave. This is the only way I coulod get FreeBSD to deal with mine. Windows and the bios had no problems wit hthe thing. The box is a POS in a lot of ways, so I am not sure it is a driver thing, or a hardware problem. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message