From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 3:32:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7931137B403 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 03:32:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA22669; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:40:59 +0200 Message-ID: <3B249EDF.54EA7721@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:35:11 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: anton chirita Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting atapi cdrom References: <01060918244900.01552@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> <3B246775.388CD556@i-clue.de> <01061112481800.00752@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG anton chirita schrieb: > > please excuse the lack of information and thank you for the support > i have limited hardware knowledge, but i think that my cdrom is atapi > compatible and is the primary slave (device /dev/hdb in linux) > the hard-drive is the primary master (device /dev/hda for linux) > here are some lines from dmesg: > > ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Seems this CD-ROM has problems. Don't tell us "but it works with Windumbs" -- it pretends to work. It does not work properly. Check ATA cables and master- / slave-jumpers on both hard disk and CD-ROM. HTH -Christoph Sold > ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable > ad0: 8223MB [16708/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > i'm trying also to disable dma for the hard-drive > sysctl hw.atamodes says "dma,---,---,---," > i don't know what value to assign to disable dma > > regards, > anton > > On Monday 11 June 2001 09:38 am, you wrote: > > anton chirita schrieb: > > > hello > > > i have a 40x atapi cdrom > > > i burned a 4.3-install.iso and booted from it > > > when i choosed cdrom as instalation media i got the error "no cdrom > > > device" after that i installed from a dos drive > > > i recompiled the kernel with a "device atapicd" line in the conf file but > > > i still can't make the device and mount the cdrom drive > > > this is the first time i try freebsd > > > above that my hard-drive led stands on all the time > > > > > > how can i solve this problems? > > > > Since you do not include any information, this is only > > speculation:either you got a very old CD-ROM drive, which is not > > ATAPI-compatible, or your drive is configured as slave and connected to > > an ATA port without a master drive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message