Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:12:24 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.1-RELEASE -- can't find CD-ROM Message-ID: <14092.58232.661990.555410@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Sorry to rehash this again, but I cannot fathom that I'm the only person on the earth who has seen this problem (if it's a real problem). I am running an Asus P2B-DS, BIOS 1008, Adaptec onboard 7890 controller with 2 Viking II LVD drives, a Toshiba CD-ROM and Yamaha CD-RW hanging from the respective outlets. As far as I know and can tell, all termination is correct. NT can see all devices and seems pretty "stable" (as far as NT goes :) in accessing them. When I boot from the 3.1-RELEASE floppies and get to the "Media" choice under sysinstall, it simply will not recognize that I've got a CD-ROM device connected to the bus. Sysinstall comes up too quickly for me to see the "probe" messages for the scsi bus during boot. Certainly somewhere in the world, somebody has an Asus P2B-DS (or a P2B-S for that matter) and has installed 3.1-RELEASE from scsi CD-ROM attached to the onboard controller. I would appreciate success stories from those who have! Could you please tell me which BIOS revision you have as well as SCSI bios revision number. Mine is "v2.01". Note: When I use the 3.0-RELEASE boot disks (or boot from CD-ROM via the scsi BIOS) sysinstall sees the CD-ROM device(s) just fine. Any hints at where to go from here and/or success stories with details would be much appreciated. My current thoughts are that I'm just going to have to install 3.0-RELEASE and live with it until I can cvsup the code and try to find out what has broken. On a semi-related note: Adaptec has BIOS updates for the 2940U2W boards but they say "this won't work on OEM or embedded controllers". Has anybody had the cajones to try and update the BIOS to see if they were just BS-ing (i.e. not wanting to support their products unless it was an 'official' add-in card) or if it really fubars your system. Just curious. Thanks!!! -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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