Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 18:33:11 PDT From: "m. w." <m_wall@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: plextor SCSI CDROM? Message-ID: <19980524013311.19439.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hey guys,
I was installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 after moving some partitions around
on my drive today, and was apalled to find that when I tried to select
which media to install from BSD would not read from the cd drive. It
gives me a message saying that there is no CDROM drive found. I have a
Gateway 2000 Pentium II machine with an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI controller
and a Plextor 12x SCSI CDROM. Shouldn't BSD recognize any SCSI drives
running off of a supported SCSI controller? I looked in the "hardware
supported" list of the installation notes, and Plextor isn't listed
under SCSI devices, but I just wanted to make sure... Any help you could
give me would be greatly appreciated.
Also, all of my previous OSes like Windoze 95 (gag) and NT 4.0 have
seen my trusty Seagate 9.1 gig drive as being an 8676 Mbyte drive
instead of 9.1 gigs like it's supposed to be. (So does FreeBSD on
bootup!) Even BSD's Fdisk sees it as that. The geometry cannot be
changed from the CMOS setup since it's not IDE, and I can't change it in
the Adaptec bios either.
Like I said, any help or advice or whatever you could give me would
be great. I'd be bummed if I had to stick with Win NT, cuz I kinda
wanted both NT _and_ BSD on my machine. Oh, would it make a difference
if I booted from the floppy instead of the CDROM to install?
Thanks guys--
Michael Wallis
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