From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 5 10:24:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.svr.pol.co.uk (mail2.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1435A14EBD for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 10:23:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-103.name41.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.180.103] helo=default) by mail2.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10qKAl-0000Xm-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:23:56 +0100 Message-ID: <001301beaf78$4f666700$67b4883e@default> From: "Steve Howe" To: Subject: Ex-buffoon seeks ATAPI CDROM advice Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:24:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEAF80.A03D5000" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEAF80.A03D5000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, first thanks to Oscar, Mark, Chris, Woody & Doug for the=20 useful advice last time I mailed this group. I eventually successfully installed FreeBSD from a DOS (spit) partition. I am now able to do some unixy things. Hoorah!=20 But now I want to get my hands on the ports residing on the=20 CDROMs. I am still having trouble getting the kernel to recognise=20 my CDROM though.=20 As Doug pointed out last time round an ATAPI IDE CDROM,=20 while not supported in the novice installation, is referenced in the GENERIC kernel. So in the MYKERNEL version (which I have now succesfully=20 built and installed 6 times!) I have uncommented-out the: options ATAPI options ATAPI_STATIC device wcd0 entries, while leaving, as advised on the web site, the=20 controller wdc1 disk wd2 disk wd3 options which actually point at the relevant controller. At boot-up time however the kernel seems to make no attempt=20 to resolve the wcd0 device I've told it to in MYKERNEL, and=20 consequently I am not able to mount it after I've logged in. I had a search round the website and found one link which seemed to suggest that the ATAPI interface was experimental and should be=20 regarded as alpha. So is this a problem in 2.2.8? Most advice gratefully received, thanks, Steve Howe Harpenden England (0 Sweden 0) =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEAF80.A03D5000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

first thanks to Oscar, Mark, Chris, Woody & Doug for the =

useful advice last time I mailed this group. I eventually

successfully installed FreeBSD from a DOS (spit) partition.

I am now able to do some unixy things. Hoorah!

But now I want to get my hands on the ports residing on the =

CDROMs.

I am still having trouble getting the kernel to recognise =

my CDROM though.

As Doug pointed out last time round an ATAPI IDE CDROM, =

while not supported in the novice installation,

is referenced in the GENERIC kernel.

So in the MYKERNEL version (which I have now succesfully =

built and installed 6 times!) I have uncommented-out the:

options ATAPI

options ATAPI_STATIC

device wcd0

entries, while leaving, as advised on the web site, the

controller wdc1

disk = =20 wd2

disk = =20 wd3

options which actually point at the relevant controller.

At boot-up time however the kernel seems to make no attempt

to resolve the wcd0 device I've told it to in MYKERNEL, and

consequently I am not able to mount it after I've logged in.

I had a search round the website and found one link which = seemed

to suggest that the ATAPI interface was experimental and should be =

regarded as alpha. So is this a problem in 2.2.8?

Most advice gratefully received,

thanks,

Steve Howe

Harpenden

England (0 Sweden 0)

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