From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 22 05:40:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA05049 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 05:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from lugh.kerris.com (lugh.kerris.com [205.150.35.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA05041 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 05:40:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mkerr@localhost) by lugh.kerris.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA00198; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:40:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:40:09 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Kerr To: Mike Jeays cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD problem during probe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike Jeays wrote: > > I have been successful at installing freebsd on my system using a Mitsumi > > 8x CDROM. My problem now is that I can't get it to mount properly. For > > some reason it doesn't show up in the probe. > > > I had all sorts of similar troubles with 2.1.5, and eventually found that > the following snippet from the kernel config file works well. > There is a long pause during the probe on the second controller > (about 30 seconds?) Yes, there is. I'll go through what you have below. For some reason (after I sent the email out I went to do my first kernel rebuild) the wcd0 device is commented out along with the ATAPI option in my generic config. I've commented them back in and done a rebuild, and though it DOES finally recognize the CD and mount it, it still does the pause. As I say, I'll take a look at the stuff below. > I have now installed the 2.2-BETA, and the boot floppy finds the > CD-ROM correctly, and the default kernel also worked for me. Cool. I have another question, perhaps unrelated. I've never tried installing a second hard drive, and find that I'm having difficulty doing so. I've been told by some people that sysinstall is a more intuitive way of doing partition and filesystem creation but when I load it up, the mount points show and the NFS column has a * in it. I don't want to screw up my current HD and partitions. Any ideas? Mike. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/ mkerr@kerris.com | Web Guy, etc.