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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:33:41 +0200
From:      Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fwd: 5.0/5.1: Installer does not find CD-ROM drive - even though it's booted off it
Message-ID:  <9F2836CC-9B26-11D7-A00C-000393C59E6C@e.kth.se>

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I'd like to report this as a bug. I posted this to freebsd-current=20
earlier, but only got one answer for someone else with the same problem.

I have not been able to verify this currently with FreeBSD 4.8, as the=20=

internet connect here is very slow. I'm going to try that later today.=20=

What address should I send bug report followups to?

Vidarebefordrat brev:

> Fr=E5n: Vitaly Markitantov <vm@dics.com.ua>
> Datum: tis 10 jun 2003  08.55.12
> Till: current@freebsd.org
> =C4mne: Re: 5.0/5.1: Installer does not find CD-ROM drive - even =
though=20
> it's booted off it
>
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm having difficulty with the ISO image of FreeBSD 5.1. The same
>> problem also appeared in 5.0, but since 5.1 had come out, I decided =
to
>> try that before reporting this bug.
>>
>> When booting the installer off the CD-ROM and doing a Standard=20
>> install,
>> you first get to the stage of partitioning a hard drive.
>>
>> Then you get to the stage where distributions are chosen.
>>
>> After that, it wants you to choose install media. I choose CD/DVD, =
and
>> suddenly it says:
>>
>> "No CD/DVD devices found!"
>>
>> This is strange, since I clearly have been able to boot from it, and
>> the boot loader seems to find it.
>>
>> On a whim, I also tried to choose "Floppy" for the install, but that
>> didn't work either:
>>
>> "No floppy devices found!"
>>
>> This is more than strange. It's truly bizarre.
>>
>> In the boot loader it says:
>>
>> BIOS CD is cd0
>> BIOS drive A: is disk0
>> BIOS drive C: is disk1
>>
>> And just before it dumps into /stand/sysinstall, I get:
>>
>> ata1-master: timeout waiting for interrupt
>> ata1-master: ATAPI identify failed
>>
>> The system is new, and has had no OS installed on it previously. I=20
>> have
>> upgraded the BIOS to the latest version.
>>
>> Specifications:
>>
>> - Microstar 865PE Neo2 LS mother board
>> - 3 x Intel 10/100 Desktop Adapter S cards. (Supported by the fxp
>> driver)
>> - Cheap Geforce 4 MX based AGP graphics card
>> - Western Digital Special Edition 120 GB hard drive with 8 MB disk
>> cache connected using the onboard ATA100 functionality. Master on the
>> first IDE bus.
>> - Samsung CD-ROM drive connected to the second IDE bus as Master. =
Only
>> does ATA33 with the cables I use.
>
>  Looks like Samsung 52X CD-ROM is broken for FreeBSD, i have this=20
> problem
>  with this drive, when i replace it to Asus 52X CD-ROM, all works =
fine.
>
>
> --=20
>  Vitaly Markitantov         mailto: vm@dics.com.ua
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