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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:10:41 -0500
To: dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com
From: Matthew Hagerty <wpub1@net-link.net>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Install, ATAPI CDROM, EIDE HD
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At 10:50 AM 1/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>

David,

   Why are you installing 2.2.2?  You should install the latest 2.2.5 if
possible.  Also, it looks like you CDROM is the slave device on your second
IDE controller (WD1).  When I installed 2.2.2, it could not find my CDROM
on the secondary controller.  When I moved it to the primary controller
FreeBSD found it.  Put you CDROM on the primary controller as the slave.  I
keep my CDROMs on the primary controller and have had no problems with
*many* types of drives.

Matthew