Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:25:23 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: Steve Howe <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ex-buffoon seeks ATAPI CDROM advice Message-ID: <19990606212523.B679@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <001301beaf78$4f666700$67b4883e@default>; from Steve Howe on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 06:24:19PM %2B0100 References: <001301beaf78$4f666700$67b4883e@default>
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this is weird, ATAPI CD-ROMS have been officialy supported for quite a while. could you send your kernel config file and harware specs of your CD-ROM to the list? Regards, -Oscar On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 06:24:19PM +0100, Steve Howe wrote: > Hi, > > first thanks to Oscar, Mark, Chris, Woody & Doug for the > useful advice last time I mailed this group. I eventually > successfully installed FreeBSD from a DOS (spit) partition. > > I am now able to do some unixy things. Hoorah! > > But now I want to get my hands on the ports residing on the > CDROMs. > > I am still having trouble getting the kernel to recognise > my CDROM though. > > As Doug pointed out last time round an ATAPI IDE CDROM, > while not supported in the novice installation, > is referenced in the GENERIC kernel. > > So in the MYKERNEL version (which I have now succesfully > built and installed 6 times!) I have uncommented-out the: > > options ATAPI > options ATAPI_STATIC > device wcd0 > > entries, while leaving, as advised on the web site, the > > controller wdc1 > disk wd2 > disk wd3 > > options which actually point at the relevant controller. > > At boot-up time however the kernel seems to make no attempt > to resolve the wcd0 device I've told it to in MYKERNEL, and > consequently I am not able to mount it after I've logged in. > > I had a search round the website and found one link which seemed > to suggest that the ATAPI interface was experimental and should be > regarded as alpha. So is this a problem in 2.2.8? > > Most advice gratefully received, > > thanks, > > Steve Howe > Harpenden > England (0 Sweden 0) > > -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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