From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 12:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CEF37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mediaone.net (h00104b44180b.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.120.32]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1CKiM624558 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:44:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:44:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200102122044.f1CKiM624558@chmls20.mediaone.net> From: robdefriesse@mail.com (Rob deFriesse) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compatibility of Promise Ultra100 (ATA100) and CDROM Mime-version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed a Promise Ultra100 with a ATA100 hard drive. I tried to attach my rather old CDROM drive to the same cable but it just lay there and whimpered when I tried to access it. (More precisely the drive spun up and activity light flashed but nothing much else happened.) Does anyone know, should I expect this from an older drive? Will newer CDROM drives perform correctly on this controller? What should I look for in the drive specifications before I buy a new drive? BTW, I have these lines in my kernel config: # ATA and ATAPI devices #device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 #device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives #device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives #options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices Thank you, Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message