From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 17 12:44: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CBF14CD2; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11S3bW-000MGM-00; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:23:30 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11S3bV-00005L-00; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:23:29 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:23:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-ROM probe problems Message-ID: <19990917202329.A302@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having some problems with a CD-ROM drive being detected by FreeBSD at boot-time. Quite often, when booting, the entire boot process hangs after the atapi driver has printed "unknown phase" a couple of times. Sometimes it boots successfully, and in those cases the CD-ROM is found to be: wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, dma, iordis acd0: drive speed 6890KB/sec, 120KB cache acd0: supported read types: CD-DA acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked (the wcd0 line is always present.) On another machine, the boot process doesn't even get as far as FreeBSD, the BIOS just gives a hard disk failure message. Yes, this *does* suggest the CD drive is dodgy, but since it sometimes works OK on the machine it was bought for, it would seem all is not lost. Any ideas on getting this drive to work a bit more reliably? (Short of getting a replacement, I can just see it now: "well, since you're not using Windows, your operating system must be faulty".) -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message