Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:07:30 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Toby Hutton <thutton@vet.com.au> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL Latitude C800 problems Message-ID: <E15AQHy-0005yW-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:16:54 %2B1000 .
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thanks! that did it! danny > Hello, > > I have an Inspiron 8000 which is a similar machine, but my suggestions > might be completely bogus. > > I have a builtin DVD drive and a burner in the modular bay. The disk > is on the first IDE channel master, the DVD on first channel slave and > the burner is on the second channel master. This isn't configurable > of course, but I found that the masters are always detected fine, but > I have to wait a full minute at boot time (for things to settle > presumably) before the DVD drive will be detected. > > >From your dmesg it looks like your slave is having touble too, though > it's a slightly different message, it's still a timeout which led me > to reply in case the 60 second pause helps you. > > I have autoboot_delay="60" in my /boot/loader.conf now. Hope this > works. :) Work has been done on ATA recently-ish in CURRENT which > will hopefully fix this altogether... > -- > Toby. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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