Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 14:22:51 EST From: haar@zip.com.au (David Haar) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: My experiance setting up IDE CDROM! Message-ID: <199601190354.AA19309@zipper.zip.com.au>
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Hi all! FreeBSD newbie here, have been having lots of fun so far! One major problem ( well, major for me :) ) was getting my Mitsumi IDE CDROM working ( a FX-400 I think). I've been following the question digest for a while and went back through them trying to find out how to get it working. As I've seen a lot of people with problems similar to mine I thought I'd post here what I did to get it working. Very simple really! I have two IDE drives off the primary controller in my system that has the CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM is hanging off the ATAPI controller of my el-cheapo sound card (ES866? based). No problems with the CD-ROM under OS/2 or Win '95. I had every thing OK in kernel config etc, the second IDE controller was found during boot was found but alas no CD. What didn't occur to me that you need to set an IDE CD-ROM to slave or master. It was set to slave out of the box, changed it to master and bang, there's my CD! How exciting, no more copying to my DOS partition to get ports etc, my life is about to become much easier ( yeah right :) ). Bloody simple, bloody stupid of me too! Hope this helps someone! PS, I havn't tried this with the boot floppy..... -=Dave. haar@zip.com.au
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