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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:52:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Kevin T. Likes" <klikes@isd.state.in.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NEC 282 ATAPI cd-rom problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970206115034.829W-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <97Feb6.135425est.53786@mailgate.isd.state.in.us>

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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Kevin T. Likes wrote:

> I'm running 2.1.5-RELEASE on a pentium 133 with a PCI and an ISA
> bus, and an IDE contoller.  I also have what is identified on bootup
> as an ATAPI device NEC CDROM:282.
> 
> I rebuilt the kernel with the following options:
> 
> options         ATAPI   #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> device          wcd0    #IDE CD-ROM
> 
> Running nm on the kernel shows a number of what appear to be functions
> to access wcd0, but when I try to mount I get the following error:
> 
> bash# mount /dev/wcd0c /mnt
> /dev/wcd0c on /mnt: Device not configured
> 
> dmesg shows the system doesn't seem to be even scanning for the device
> at all.  What steps am I missing?

If the wdc probe doesn't find it during startup, then it won't be
configured. 

Try moving it to the slave position on the primary IDE controller.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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