Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:17:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only CD on IDE w/ SCSI disk? Message-ID: <19990202151729.O76680@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9902012012500.29162-100000@geo.geocast.net>; from Castor Fu on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:19:59PM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9902012012500.29162-100000@geo.geocast.net>
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On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 20:19:59 -0800, Castor Fu wrote: > I have a system with an ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive (Lucky Goldstar CRD-8322B), > and a SCSI hard disk off a Diamond Fireport 40 controller. > > When I try booting off a FreeBSD-2.2.8 installation CD, the kernel > doesn't detect the IDE CD-ROM unless I also hook up an IDE Disk. > > I've tried using the "Cable Select", "Master" and "Slave" settings > on the drive, and they all fail. When using "Cable Select" or "Master" the IDE > controller is detected but the drive is not. With the "Slave" setting, > the controller is not detected at all. > > Should FreeBSD-2.x be able to work with just one IDE device which is a > CD-ROM? It should be able to, but it's a weak area. Is it possible that your CD-ROM should be jumpered for neither master nor slave when it's by itself? Probably the easiest thing to do is to download the 3.0 boot disk; you don't need to install 3.0, but it'll tell you if it finds the CD-ROM or not. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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