Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:02:04 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Problem Detecting IDE CDROM in 3.1-Stable Message-ID: <36F29F2C.81D43E95@seattleu.edu> References: <19990318190452.A30629@intrepid.net> <36F1CB7A.563E86AF@seattleu.edu> <19990319082341.A3074@intrepid.net>
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Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:58:50PM -0800, Eric Hodel wrote: > > > > Are you sure you've enabled your IDE controller in BIOS? If your > > IDE-CDROM is your only IDE device it may have been turned off. Also > > check to make sure it is probed by BIOS, and try moving it to primay > > master. > > Moving it to primary master did the trick. Not being much of a > hardware guy: is that a FreeBSD issue, or an IDE issue? I spoke with > someone who said some of the OS's out there don't cough on that.... > > --Mark I've found IDE to be "touchy" in some cases, such as HDDs not agreeing on being master/slave to each other. On the other hand, it could be FreeBSD...try the archives... -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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