Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:37:49 -0700 From: dmp <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> Cc: whitt38@home.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie wannabe asks "Where's my CD drive?" Message-ID: <3B3A441D.89F79E30@pantherdragon.org> References: <SAK.2001.06.27.bqeerhba@support10>
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Peter wrote: > > On 06/27/2001 2:20:09 PM, "Rod Whittlesey" is quoted as saying: > . . . .|Ok, so, like I get the mfsroot.flp and kern.flp copied onto floppies using a > . . . .|utility program. Now when I boot and go thru the probes, and in Userconfig, > . . . .|there is no CD recognized. I notice that the BIOS on this machine doesn't > . . . .|seem to know about the CD either. > If the bios does not know about the CD-ROM, do you > have a cd-rom on this computer? > If you do, it's probably disconnected on the inside. > What I had happen is that the IDE cables to the CD somehow got disconnected. > > What you should do is go into the bios, and make it scan for all IDE > devices, and see if it finds the CD-ROM, if not it's probably disconnected > via the IDE cable or the power-cable. Or set the position the CD drive is taking up (i.e. 2nd master) to auto, and that may find it. Note, however, that the BIOS doesn't have to find the drive for FreeBSD to be able to find and use it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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