From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 5:44:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linum.cofc.edu (linum.cofc.edu [153.9.35.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E8F37B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 05:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from astrand@localhost) by linum.cofc.edu (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e85Cifn13387; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:44:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from astrand) To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting ATAPI cdroms References: <20000904180850.A5141@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <86snrgug13.fsf@linum.cofc.edu> <3.0.6.32.20000905072848.0088ed00@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20000905085240.00895c40@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20000905122103.0089cba0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <39B484AD.A45E3EF@urx.com> From: Allan Strand In-Reply-To: Kent Stewart's message of "Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:29:17 -0700" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Date: 05 Sep 2000 08:44:41 -0400 Message-ID: <86pumjdn46.fsf@linum.cofc.edu> Lines: 37 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart writes: > Roger Merritt wrote: > > > > > Yes, I did. Sorry I left that out of my list. > > > > Latest news, I just finished building world for 4.1-RELEASE (had a > > little confusion over the name of the kernel until I remembered the > > UPDATES comment) and it seems to be running fine. It has no problem > > with the cd-rom. I'm going to start cvsup to 4-STABLE now (I have a > > slow connection so it'll probably take 10-12 hours) and try again. I > > have to take tomorrow off for some other business, so it'll be Thursday > > (Thai time) before I can tell if the latest STABLE works for me. Still, > > I cvsupped at least once (and I think it was twice *after* 25 August) > > and it still didn't. > > The cdrom problem mount problem was introduced around 22 August and > fixed on 31 August. It didn't affect building but using a CD as an ata > device once you had a userland and kernel built. > > What do you mean by slow connection? I found a lot of how long > cvsup-ing 4-stable required was how busy the server was. My cvsup > times varied between 4min and 16min over a 56kb modem. Then I switched > servers and got times on DSL of around 1 min. > > Kent > I was the person with the initial question in this thread, and I now know that it is my 2nd IDE controller, not the driver. (FYI ASUS P5A mthrbrd) Thanks, a. -- Allan Strand, Biology http://linum.cofc.edu College of Charleston Ph. (843) 953-8085 Charleston, SC 29424 Fax (843) 953-5453 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message