Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:46:58 +1100 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Josh Abbe <joshabbe@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Plextor DVDRW not recognized during install Message-ID: <200612170846.58285.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: <805d1def0612121912iedf1a6al11a8a3a99f7eb42e@mail.gmail.com> References: <805d1def0612121912iedf1a6al11a8a3a99f7eb42e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:12, Josh Abbe wrote: > Hey everyone, Hey, > 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: > > 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. > > 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). > > The drive I am trying to install off of is the (SATA) Plextor DVDRW (PX - > 716A/SW) I had the same problem sometime ago. After I installed via FTP and updated the source for a few months my DVDR <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A/1.07 was suddenly being probed and loaded OK, but up until a few months ago FreeBSD no longer sees it on boot anymore. At first the only way I could my DVD driver to load was to unplug the SATA cable and plug it back in and FreeBSD would see it then. Searching the PR database I found a better solution from someone who had the same problem. I use atacontrol detach ata3(where my drive is) wait a few seconds and then atacontrol attach ata3 and then my driver is now loaded.
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