From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 10:43:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.primushost.com (poseidon.shore.net [207.244.124.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7828737B416 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nautilus.shore.net (localhost) [207.244.124.104] (root) by relay1.primushost.com with esmtp (Exim) id 16rkIL-0000Th-00; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:43:13 -0500 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:49:52 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Jason Kerr To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem install w/ Sony CDU-76S Message-ID: X-X-Sender: jkerr@lopez.cable.rcn.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having trouble installing FreeBSD 4.5 on an old P5-200 machine: Motherboard - ASUS P55TP4XE SCSI Controller - ASUS SC-200 ID0 - CD-ROM - Sony CDU-76S ID2 - Tape - Seagate STT28000N ID4 - HD - Seagate ST318404LW I boot using the kern and mfsroot floppies, configure the kernel to remove the un-used drivers, but the device probe reports the following: ... cd0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: Removeable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 5.681MB/s transfers (5.681MHz, offset 8) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, (the last line ends after "NOT READY,", with nothing further.) The install application continues, but the CD-ROM isn't, and cannot be, mounted. I can continue the install via FTP, but the failure to install the CD-ROM is troubling, so I'm holding off. Suggestions? Comments? Pointers to others who have solved such problems? Thanks, Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message