Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:58:49 +0200 From: Lia Maggioni <voloterreno@tin.it> To: greg.panula@dolaninformation.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD doesn't find my CD-RW and sometimes my DVD Message-ID: <5A36F42C-BE97-11D7-8E62-00039387DFA2@tin.it> In-Reply-To: <3F211851.C4EC8187@dolaninformation.com>
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Venerd=EC, luglio 25, 2003, alle 01:45 , Greg Panula ha scritto: I don't use cable select :( I've ever used Jumpers. I've tried to change the position on the cable on the drives.... no way. :( Help :( Bye Marcello > Lia Maggioni wrote: >> >> Hi , I'm disperated >> >> I've recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 ,and all at the first look was ok = , >> this was only a try in a small partition , and now I have decided to >> install it in a bigger partition , so I've downloaded the 5.1 ISO (to >> give it a try too) and I've tried to BURN it with "burncd" . Now, = I've >> noticed that in the DEV directory there are the devices "acd0a" and >> "acd0c" , I've thought that acd0a was DVD and acd0c was CD-RW... but = I >> was wrong... >> >> ACD0 is only the DVD , CD-RW (a Liteon 52x 24x 52x) isn't found at=20 >> all!! >> Literally from DMESG: >> >> ata0-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed >> >> and sometimes it doesn't find my DVD too , with the message : >> >> ata1-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed >> >> so, I'm without CD and DVD :cry: >> >> What I can do?? >> > > Did you try setting the jumpers on the device(s) to slave instead of > Cable-select? > > I've had mixed results with IDE devices using cable-select(cs). > > greg >
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