From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 11:34:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09041 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from exchange.ttl.pactel.com (exchange.ttl.pactel.com [206.170.18.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09024 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:34:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com) From: dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com Received: by exchange.ttl.pactel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:50:08 -0800 Message-ID: <35EF0B8572DACF11B5BA080009CB86B840E8A2@exchange.ttl.pactel.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Install, ATAPI CDROM, EIDE HD Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:50:06 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'm making progress installing FreeBSD. I've found that, even when using the atapi floppy installation method, I can't install from my Toshiba ATAPI CDROM...it locks up (after it identifies my cdrom as wd1, which is incorrect, anyway) If I using the install/reconfiguration utility, I can remove wd1 from the available storage devices, and the install goes a little further (going to the menu-driven utility). But then it can't find the CDROM. I tried telling the kernel config that my CDROM has the same parameters (I/O, IRQ, etc.) as wd1, and removing wd1. It still can't see my CDROM drive. Perhaps my drive is not supported. (If that's the case, I'll have to install from an existing partition, I guess...) How can I find out if my drive is supported (and if FreeBSD 2.2.2 now supports EIDE drives beyond sector 1024) -David --------------------------------------- David B. Small Telesis Technologies Laboratory http://www.ttl.pactel.com/~dbsmall