From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 18:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cannet.com (cannet.com [206.156.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CB7A14E5F for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BenG%thekeyboard.com@all-ts4-dyn23.cannet.com) Received: from all-ts4-dyn23.cannet.com by mail.cannet.com id aa21491; 13 Apr 1999 21:16 EDT Message-ID: <3713EC13.1E4C16B7@thekeyboard.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:14:59 -0400 From: Benjamin George X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old CD-ROM won't work References: <199904131454.KAA21464@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 -- My Waterskiing Pages (Barefoot & Wakeboarding): http://waterski.pharamond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message