Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:22:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: Benjamin George <BenG@thekeyboard.com> Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old CD-ROM won't work Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904132121390.551-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <3713EC13.1E4C16B7@thekeyboard.com>
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Check the cable connections. Boot from a dos (win98?) floppy and see if it'll still work under dos. ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Benjamin George wrote: > "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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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