Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:16:22 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Odom <daniel@thelonious.spidome.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI CD fix Message-ID: <199703191616.KAA12937@thelonious.spidome.net>
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I've seen two posts in two days on this topic (to 'hackers', even), so I'll throw in my $2.00 (inflation sucks): FreeBSD 2.1.6 (and 2.1.7?) needs the IDE cd-rom to be a slave on the primary controller. It will not work if the cd-rom drive is the master on the secondary controller. Most PCs are shipped with the CD-ROM on the secondary controller, so you need to go in and switch the cables around. I learned this the hard way. Six months ago or so I was working help desk (don't groan) and one of the "known issues" that floated accross my desk was "BSD derived operating systems will not recognize the ATAPI CD-ROM in some models." I forgot about it until I tried to install BSDI 2.1 on a new server and (surprise) it didn't find the CD. I went through my filing cabinets to find the solution: "The ATAPI CD-ROM device driver that ships with many BSD distributions requires the drive to be a slave on the master controller. Switch the CD-ROM cable from the controller on the system board to the connector on the primary hard drive." This, of course, was _after_ four hours of fiddling with it. :-) This holds true for BSDI 2.1 and FreeBSD 2.1.6. FreeBSD 2.2-SNAP will work properly. Why isn't this in an FAQ somewhere? -- Daniel Odom System administrator (sometimes) and web guy (the rest of the time) daniel@thelonious.spidome.net http://www.spidome.net/daniel/ finger me for a PGP key
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