From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 5 05:43:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA05614 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 05:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pds-gateway.pdspc.com ([207.7.39.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA05609 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 05:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pds-gateway.pdspc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 07:44:25 -0500 Message-ID: <91DD7FDA88E4D011BED00000C0DD87E70BE949@pds-gateway.pdspc.com> From: Kenny Hanson To: "FreeBSD Hackers (E-mail)" Subject: RE: PIIX3 controller does not support CD-ROMs under FreeBSD Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 07:44:23 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an Intel Anchorage (AN430TX) mainboard with a Sony CDU611 IDE CDRom on the secondary ide controller (wdc1). It finds my sony just fine on wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa. It detects all the goodies that come with that cdrom as well... check to make sure you haven't commented out wdc1 and scd0 (if you have a Sony) from the kernel config file. Kenny Hanson, Senior Research Analyst Paragon Development Systems Email: khanson@pdspc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: john hood [SMTP:cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 1997 1:29 AM > To: Atipa; hackers@freebsd.com > Subject: PIIX3 controller does not support CD-ROMs under FreeBSD > > Atipa writes: > > > > > > The PIIX3 IDE controller (pci0) used on 430TX-based and 440LX-based > > motherboards is not currently supported. IDE disks work ok, but I > can not > > get any CD-ROMs to work. It does not recognize wdc1, although it > does find > > wcd0. DOS has no problem at all seeing the CD-ROM. This is very > > repeatable; simply try to use a CD-ROM w/ TX. > > > > I have not tried the DMA Busmatering drivers. Might they be a > remedy? > > FreeBSD doesn't support it specifically, at least not yet, but it > should work fine as a generic IDE controller. > > Are you sure the CD-ROMs are jumpered correctly and working with > FreeBSD in general? Have you tried them on other chipsets? > > There's some fixes for wayward CD-ROMs in -current, atapi.c drops > right in to 2.2.2. > > The busmastering support does not extend to CD-ROMs and should not > affect them at all. > > --jh > > -- > John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us > > Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises > and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the > ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others > elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the > bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard]