Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:07:42 -0500 (EST) From: jeays@statcan.ca (Mike Jeays) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: CD ROM problems again Message-ID: <199612180407.XAA24425@statcan.ca>
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Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Organization: Statistics Canada Summary: Keywords: To add to my recent message about not being able to detect a Panasonic CR-583 (8x) CD-ROM, I have since found out the following: With Release 2.1.5 (and no doubt 2.1.6, as I was told there were no changes in the relevant code), the boot code will only identify this device if it is the *slave* on either of the two controllers. I then did a full install with the following configuration: Wdc0 Master : Windows 95 disk Wdc0 Slave : Panasonic CR-583 Wdc1 Master : FreeBSD disk Seemed to work OK - until I tried to boot the new system. It detected all the devices correctly (but with quite long pauses for the second controller), and then failed with Changing root device to wd1a Panic : cannot mount root. I then exchanged the positions of the FreeBSD disk and the CD-ROM, and it booted successfully. Can I get around this in any way? I can only run my system with the disks in the second order, and then the CD is not detected at boot time. Finally, I downloaded the 2.2_ALPHA boot diskette, and this identifies the CD-ROM when it is the master device on the second controller - so there is hope the bug will be fixed in release 2.2. Great!
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