Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:34:46 +0200 From: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is the CD driver supposed to attach() now regardless of media? Message-ID: <19990612233446.D17731@paert.tse-online.de> In-Reply-To: <73714.929087303@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 12:48:23AM -0700 References: <199906101958.NAA44110@panzer.plutotech.com> <73714.929087303@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Hi,
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 12:48:23AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Your problem is most likely with sysinstall. I've seen other folks
> > complain about having trouble with CD installs, and I think the bottom line
> > was that there was (is?) a problem with sysinstall.
>
> I doubt it - all sysinstall tries to do is mount the CDROM in the
> usual way; it doesn't do anything special.
hmmm. I thought so, too.
A few days ago I (once after a longer while) had to do a
stand-alone installation of FreeBSD. (I was introducing a friend
who is in the 'small-and-medium-network-business' to FreeBSD as
a viable alternative to Netware and NT)
The machine: Gigabyte dual processor Board,
2 x Celeron 466 (no, not overclocked, that's my
personal number-cruncher ;) )
Adaptec 2940AU
da0: <IBM DDRS-39130W S92A>
cd0: <YAMAHA CRW4416S 1.0e> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
Booting (3.1-RELEASE) from the Yamaha Rewriter went well, but
the install kernel didn't attached it to the cd-driver.
We had to grab an older Toshiba-drive and then the installation
went smooth.
After that we re-connected the Yamaha-drive and built a
custom SMP-kernel (from the plain-vanilla 3.1-RELEASE sources).
This kernel attached the CRW4416 without a problem.
Maybe there 'was' ('was' as '3.2-RELEASE' is out of the door) a
hickup in the INSTALL-kernel?
BTW.
After swapping the hostadapter to an 2940U2W
(ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs)
I noted relatively 'odd' frequencies on the SCSI-bus?
(cable and termination are 'ok')
cd0: 8.333MB/s transfers (8.333MHz, offset 31)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present -
sa0: <TANDBERG MLR1 0207> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 18.518MB/s transfers (9.259MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
-Andreas
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