Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:14:59 -0400 From: Benjamin George <BenG@thekeyboard.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old CD-ROM won't work Message-ID: <3713EC13.1E4C16B7@thekeyboard.com> References: <199904131454.KAA21464@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> Benjamin George wrote,
> > I bought an old 486DX2 to setup for a low traffic server... When I got
> > it (from a friend), it had dos and win 3.1 installed, and the CD-ROM
> > drive worked fine. I installed freebsd 2.2.7-Release from a CD-ROM, and
> > everything went just fine. After the installation (since DOS and Win
> > 3.1 is gone, I formated the drive), I can't get the CD-ROM drive to
> > work. it's an old 2X drive. the only thin I can think of that would
> > make a difference is that DOS was there the first time, but I don't know
> > why that would make any difference because I booted from a floppy.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
>
> You booted from a floppy? I thought you said you installed from
> CDROM...
I booted from the floppy, installed from the CD-ROM... It's an old computer
and it doesn't support booting from the CD-ROM.
> Anyway, have you made any changes to the BIOS?
No.
> Have you made
> any changes to the hardware?
None.
> Is this a SCSI or IDE CDROM?
IDE. It is one of the old ones uses a sound card as the interface card, too.
>
>
> And presicely what do you mean by 'you can't get it to work?' You
> can't boot from it? It's not recognized at startup? It's recognized at
> startup, but you cannot mount or read off of it?
It isn't recognized.
>
>
> Could we see the 'dmesg' output relating to the CDROM?
When I booted the first time, and it probed for the devices (using the generic
kernel), it found the CD-ROM when probing for the "wcd0" device. Now, it just
says that there was no device found. I didn't make any changes at all. I've
even tried booting from the floppy again, and it still won't work. I can get
the 'dmesg' if you think it would help, but it just says that there is no
device on 'wcd0' at whatever port address.
Thanks
>
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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