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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:32:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CD-Rom
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615213135.2150W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980612153124.36793@blueberry.co.uk>

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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Keith Jones wrote:

> > >     I currently have a Toshiba
> > > ATAPI CD-ROM, but FBSD
> > > can't detect the port it's on.
> > > (i.e., wd1 not found at 0x140)
> > > Can anyone help me??
> > 
> > IDE devices are found on a per-controller basis; you can't get the error
> > you mention above.  If you're sure the IDE CD is connected to a
> > secondary IDE controller, check that the controller's settings and
> > FreeBSD's settings for that controller match.
> 
> I missed the post previous to this one, but assuming the kernel config is
> fairly standard, surely if the CD is on a secondary IDE controller it should
> be wd2?

No, a CDROM is not an IDE hard disk.  If that was the only IDE CD in the
system it shows up as wcd0.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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