Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:30:45 -0000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Steve" <steve@piperscreek.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help CD not recognized on install / try #7 Message-ID: <021901bf0424$c08a8320$827e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <001901bf03d0$318a6ea0$131d5bcf@steve>
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It sounds like a common or garden variety CD drive. Win9x is plenty smart enough to detect anything unusual with that stuff anyway. Have you checked its configured as a slave NOT as a master ?? ..... as far as I'm aware FreeBSD won't work detect IDE CD drives configured as either primary master or secondary master ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve <steve@piperscreek.com> To: freebsdquestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 1:25 AM Subject: Help CD not recognized on install / try #7 > Anyone willing to give this one a shot? > > I recently purchased The Complete FreeBSD with the 3.2 / 4 CD ROM set from > Walnut Creek. > > I have tried to install it, but I keep coming up with this No CD-ROM device > found error. > I went back to check on the kernel settings and tried each the three > supported devices as best as I could .. no success. > > The computer is an Acer Aspire with an ATAPI 24X CD-ROM installed. It came > that way. I tried Acer.. they knew little but would make an attempt for > $35/hr! > I tried where I bought the machine.. they claimed that I was beyond them. I > have tried to determine information via looking at the device manager stuff > on Win98.. no answers.. just ATAPI CD-ROM. > > Any suggestions? I was even wondering if there was some shareware program > that could determine what this CD was. I almost forgot.. I did take the > computer apart when I was putting in another HD, and still did not see > anything of value on the CD case. I "assume" that Acer contracted someone > to make the CD-ROM for them, but as I said, they aren't talking. > > About all I can find is that it 'appears' that the CD is on interrupt 15 as > a secondary IDE and port 170. If I worded that correctly... > > I am confused.... How about you? The CD boots fine.. works fine.. but > nothing I have run seems to detect it.. therefore FreeBSD doesn't seem to > know how to recognize the very CD that it was using. > > Thanks.. > > > > > 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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