From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 12:53:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07940 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07920 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA04362; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:53:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:53:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Kevin T. Likes" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEC 282 ATAPI cd-rom problem In-Reply-To: <97Feb7.102950est.53771@mailgate.isd.state.in.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Kevin T. Likes wrote: > > The thing that really bothers me is that there doesn't seem to be a > probe taking place at all. A friend of mine is running an almost > identical configuration, except for using 2.1.0 instead of 2.1.5. The > only difference in the config file seems to be an entry for > ATAPI_STATIC > I tried adding that, and got no complaints from config, but it didn't seem > to help. I'm hoping there's a software solution rather than a hardware > one. The ATAPI driver is not perfect. We've found that your chances increase exponentially if you put the CDROM in the slave position on the primary controller or single on the secondary controller. This depends on your CDROM and IDE hardware. Unless you'd like to help the atapi improvement effort -- write hackers@freebsd.org, and have your programming skills handy. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major