Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 03:33:58 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG (Wilko Bulte) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12495: 3.1 install fails to detect Toshiba CDROM on AHA1740 adapter Message-ID: <199907050933.DAA75628@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <199907041010.DAA39439@freefall.freebsd.org> from Wilko Bulte at "Jul 4, 1999 03:10:03 am"
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[ If you don't CC messages to me, it'll take a lot longer to get a reply. ] Wilko Bulte wrote... > The following reply was made to PR kern/12495; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, wilko@freebsd.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: kern/12495: 3.1 install fails to detect Toshiba CDROM on AHA1740 > adapter > Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 12:08:50 +0200 > > Hi Ken, > > Thanks for your reply. > > On your question: yes, there was a 3.1 release CD in the drive during > the boot. Okay, that rules out that problem. > And you are right, the Toshiba drive is not exactly an ancient device. > Not new either, it is a 4x > cdrom. > > What puzzles me is the fact that 2.2.x has always worked just fine, > I have multiple of the > same Toshiba model in both my Intel and Alpha machines. It's not as puzzling as you might think. We don't wait for the CDROM drive to finish probing before we start booting. So if sysinstall probes right away, it might not see the cdrom drive. The old SCSI layer probed things sequentially, so you would finish probing everything, no matter how long it took, before any booting took place. > I'll probably give 3.2-release a try next Saturday. Good idea, it's possible that'll fix the problem, although I'm not so sure it will. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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