Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:24:46 +0300 From: anton chirita <x68@home.ro> To: so@server.i-clue.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting atapi cdrom Message-ID: <01061209244600.01093@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> In-Reply-To: <3B249EDF.54EA7721@i-clue.de> References: <01060918244900.01552@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> <01061112481800.00752@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> <3B249EDF.54EA7721@i-clue.de>
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i've opened the case and checked the cables and jumpers everything seemed ok to me but i've mentioned before my poor hardware knowledge now i simply don't know what to do i'll just have to copy everything from the cdrom onto a dos or ext2 partition the truth is that i'm havins doubts about using freebsd regards, anton On Monday 11 June 2001 01:35 pm, you wrote: > anton chirita schrieb: > > please excuse the lack of information and thank you for the support > > i have limited hardware knowledge, but i think that my cdrom is atapi > > compatible and is the primary slave (device /dev/hdb in linux) > > the hard-drive is the primary master (device /dev/hda for linux) > > here are some lines from dmesg: > > > > ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Seems this CD-ROM has problems. Don't tell us "but it works with > Windumbs" -- it pretends to work. It does not work properly. Check ATA > cables and master- / slave-jumpers on both hard disk and CD-ROM. > > HTH > -Christoph Sold > > > ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable > > ad0: 8223MB <ST38410A> [16708/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > > i'm trying also to disable dma for the hard-drive > > sysctl hw.atamodes says "dma,---,---,---," > > i don't know what value to assign to disable dma > > > > regards, > > anton > > > > On Monday 11 June 2001 09:38 am, you wrote: > > > anton chirita schrieb: > > > > hello > > > > i have a 40x atapi cdrom > > > > i burned a 4.3-install.iso and booted from it > > > > when i choosed cdrom as instalation media i got the error "no cdrom > > > > device" after that i installed from a dos drive > > > > i recompiled the kernel with a "device atapicd" line in the conf file > > > > but i still can't make the device and mount the cdrom drive > > > > this is the first time i try freebsd > > > > above that my hard-drive led stands on all the time > > > > > > > > how can i solve this problems? > > > > > > Since you do not include any information, this is only > > > speculation:either you got a very old CD-ROM drive, which is not > > > ATAPI-compatible, or your drive is configured as slave and connected to > > > an ATA port without a master drive. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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