From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 10:13:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17505 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17494 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA18245; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:13:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:13:22 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy To: Norman C Rice cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom not configured? In-Reply-To: <19980121104807.38068@emu.sourcee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > 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 > > Please post the output of `dmesg'. If this doesn't identify the CD-ROM, > what is its manufacturer and model? dmesg says: ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 3 on pci0:16 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM XP34550W LXY4" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4341MB (8890760 512 byte sectors) Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xa0 SEQADDR == 0xa0 Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xa0 SEQADDR == 0xa0 Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xa0 SEQADDR == 0xa0 Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xa0 SEQADDR == 0xa0 Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xa0 SEQADDR == 0xa0 Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xa0 SEQADDR == 0xa0 (ahc0:6:0): "SEAGATE ST32155W 0528" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors) the cdrom that it apparently can't deal with is a Teac 56S. I remember that I tried to install 2.2.2 on this machine and the cdrom would boot, but then lock up after the "Unexpected busfree" messages. BTW, sd1 is the boot drive for FBSD, if that makes any difference.