From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 29 16:27:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02728 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02704 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA03924; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:56:53 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980630085653.P1880@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:56:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gustavo Lozano Ibarra , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing problem with two ide cdroms References: <199806292117.OAA20047@academ02.maz.itesm.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806292117.OAA20047@academ02.maz.itesm.mx>; from Gustavo Lozano Ibarra on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 08:17:40AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (removing -current from the CC:; there's no evidence it has anything to do with -current). On Monday, 29 June 1998 at 8:17:40 -0600, Gustavo Lozano Ibarra wrote: > I was trying to install freebsd in a computer with two cdroms without > success.. in the first Ide port I have a hard dis (master), in the second > ide port I have a cdr (master) Ah. That's news. > and a cdrom(slave)... but when I try to install freebsd from the > freebsd cd... the installation program freeze in the probing device > section.. What can I do?Does Freebsd support two cd units Yes, again. > ok, here is my hardware specification.. the second port is in the > motherboard and I have connected both cd units in this port... > both units share irq 15 and port 0x170... Well, it's the controller that uses these values, so there's nothing to share. > Windows can use this shared irq and detect both units... but what about > freebsd... We've generally connected IDE CD-ROMs as slaves. Would it be a lot of trouble to reconfigure like that (connect the CD-ROM as primary slave)? In any case, if you tell us what kind of hardware you have, it might help. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message