Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:14:13 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Josh Abbe <joshabbe@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plextor DVDRW not recognized during install Message-ID: <20061213031413.GA93813@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <805d1def0612121912iedf1a6al11a8a3a99f7eb42e@mail.gmail.com> References: <805d1def0612121912iedf1a6al11a8a3a99f7eb42e@mail.gmail.com>
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--9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:12:37PM -0500, Josh Abbe wrote: > Hey everyone, >=20 > First of all, I hope I am doing this (sending a mass email) correctly. I > didn't see any instructions or guidelines, so here goes: >=20 > I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 (Amd64). I am a complete newbie, but I > thought I would be able to do it following the FreeBSD Hand Book. Well, > everything looked like it was going fine. I chose a language/country, set > the auto configuration for the HDD partitions, and eventually got to the > screen that asked me to choose which media to install from. I chose > CD/DVD. Then, it gave me an error saying that the system could not detect > my CD drive. Weird...since it seemed to know the drive was there to get = me > to that point. >=20 > Right now, installing over FTP is not an option. I posted my problem in a > FreeBSD forum, but no one seemed to have any solutions other than to send= an > email to the DL (as I am doing now). >=20 > The drive I am trying to install off of is the (SATA) Plextor DVDRW (PX - > 716A/SW) > I have an ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo, an 80 Gb WD SATA HDD (where FreeBSD will g= o), > a 150 Gb WD Raptor X (with Win XP currently installed), an AMD FX-60 > dual-core proc (2.6Ghz), a GeForce 7900 GTX, 2GB Corsair memory, Sound > Blaster X-Fi, etc... I cant think of any more parts that would make a > difference. ATAPI SATA devices are not yet supported, sorry. You'll need to get a PATA drive for now. -- Brooks --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFf3AFXY6L6fI4GtQRAviUAKC8lPf2JT58oN3ZLlj4yBBe6VEWxwCg0rrA 7g83yPDttvS39mGJRmJL4K8= =KgFL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--
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