From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 21:39:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin2.email.bigpond.com (juicer14.bigpond.com [139.134.6.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B8D37B71A; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toby@hutton.org) Received: from kevin ([139.134.4.56]) by mailin2.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GB1RXF00.4H0; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:44:03 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-77-80.vic.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.77.80]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Famous-MailRouter V2.9c 5/14019280); 31 Mar 2001 15:38:51 From: Toby Hutton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15045.28018.736299.855532@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:38:58 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: DVD-ROM woes (ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded) X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: Toby Hutton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, My DVD-ROM drive isn't detected on boot by 4.3-RC but according to the mailing lists it seems to have been a problem since around 4.1-RELEASE for some people. I have a new Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook: atapci0: port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf at device 31.1 on pci0 . . ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable ad0: 9590MB [19485/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSDMA It has only one IDE channel with the disk on master, DVDROM on slave. The interesting thing is I installed from a 4.2 CD and found that if I boot off the kernel shipped with this CD it still doesn't work, but if I boot from the CD itself my drive is detected and works fine. :-/ After searching the mailing lists I found a few other people have this problem though I haven't seen a solution posted, other than using the old wd ISA device. Is there a better solution? -- Toby. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message