From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 18:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from msia-internal.msianet.org (firewall3.ndh.org [208.233.1.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1148B37C2D2 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Robert@msia.org) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: NEC ATAPI CD-ROM giving incompatibility errors at Kernel load time (writing as instructed in The Complete FreeBSD, p. 100) X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2a November 23, 1999 From: Robert@msia.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:38:26 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on MSIA-Internal/MSIA(Release 5.0.1a|August 17, 1999) at 03/30/2000 06:38:27 PM, Serialize complete at 03/30/2000 06:38:27 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 004505C9882568B2_=" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 004505C9882568B2_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear FreeBSD: I am attempting to install FreeBSD 3.4 on a Dell Dimemsion XPS P133c to prove to my boss that even on what our company considers an outdated machine, a UN*X operating system will still be more robust, stable, and configurable than our current NT Servers. I need some help. The CD-ROM that comes with this Dell is made by NEC and isn't responding properly. I have tried rebuilding the kernel with various paramaters to no avail. Here is the load-time error (more or less -- it flashes by): wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa unit 0 ATAPI (NEC 273/4.21removable I/O ready) ATAPI1.0 unknown phase ... controller not ready for cmd controller not ready for cmd Then FreeBSD boots fine but I can't mount the drive. ANY help is greatly appreciated here .... I've been bragging about the wonders of FreeBSD (which *ran* the ISP I used to work for in Berkeley :-) and want to show it's stuff. Thanks, Robert Peake Robert@MSIA.org --=_alternative 004505C9882568B2_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Dear FreeBSD:

I am attempting to install FreeBSD 3.4 on a Dell Dimemsion XPS P133c to prove to my boss that even on what our company considers an outdated machine, a UN*X operating system will still be more robust, stable, and configurable than our current NT Servers. I need some help. The CD-ROM that comes with this Dell is made by NEC and isn't responding properly. I have tried rebuilding the kernel with various paramaters to no avail.

Here is the load-time error (more or less -- it flashes by):

wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
unit 0 ATAPI (NEC 273/4.21removable I/O ready)
ATAPI1.0 unknown phase
...
controller not ready for cmd
controller not ready for cmd

Then FreeBSD boots fine but I can't mount the drive.

ANY help is greatly appreciated here .... I've been bragging about the wonders of FreeBSD (which *ran* the ISP I used to work for in Berkeley :-) and want to show it's stuff.

Thanks,
Robert Peake
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