From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 12 14:32:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D06A15575 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:32:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 35413 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Jun 1999 21:34:46 -0000 Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:34:46 +0200 From: Andreas Braukmann 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> References: <199906101958.NAA44110@panzer.plutotech.com> <73714.929087303@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <73714.929087303@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 12:48:23AM -0700 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: cd0: 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: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 18.518MB/s transfers (9.259MHz, offset 15, 16bit) -Andreas -- : TSE TeleService GmbH : Gsf: Arne Reuter : : : Hovestrasse 14 : Andreas Braukmann : We do it with : : D-48351 Everswinkel : HRB: 1430, AG WAF : FreeBSD/SMP : :--------------------------------------------------------------------: : Anti-Spam Petition: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ : : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message