From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 18:37: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465E8150EE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14861; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:01:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdM14859; Tue Sep 21 12:01:41 1999 Message-ID: <021901bf0424$c08a8320$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Steve" Cc: References: <001901bf03d0$318a6ea0$131d5bcf@steve> Subject: Re: Help CD not recognized on install / try #7 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:30:45 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: freebsdquestions 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