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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:48:07 -0500
From:      Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To:        Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrom not configured?
Message-ID:  <19980121104807.38068@emu.sourcee.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980121102429.1726B-100000@federation.addy.com>; from Cliff Addy on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 10:34:10AM -0500
References:  <199801211517.WAA12282@relay.kuzbass.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980121102429.1726B-100000@federation.addy.com>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 10:34:10AM -0500, Cliff Addy wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD on lots of machines and never had this problem:
> 
>   mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom
>   mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Device not configured
> 
> the cdrom has always just *been* there, available for mounting, on other
> machines, I've never had to do anything special.  This machine is like all
> the others, it's a SCSI cdrom hanging off an Adaptec 2940UW. 
> 
> Installation was also weird.  The machine booted off the cdrom and
> FreeBSD's installation program ran fine until I selected cdrom as the
> installation media.  At this point, it told me it couldn't find the cdrom!
> So I just walked over, mounted it on one of the other machines and
> installed over NFS.  Could the "lack" of a cdrom at installation make FBSD
> think the cdrom is not usable?
> 
> This machine is my personal workstation and is currently multi-booting
> DOS/Win31, WinNT, OS/2, and now FreeBSD 2.2.5.  Only FBSD can't see the
> cdrom, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem.
> 
> Help?
> 

Please post the output of `dmesg'. If this doesn't identify the CD-ROM,
what is its manufacturer and model?

Is the appropriate controller and device enabled in the kernel?
-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.



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