Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:50:35 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Robert@msia.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEC ATAPI CD-ROM giving incompatibility errors at Kernel load time (writing as instructed in The Complete FreeBSD, p. 100) Message-ID: <20000330215035.C21512@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <OF3BCB3DE3.F7C4CE5C-ON882568B2.004451B7@msianet.org>; from Robert@msia.org on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 06:38:26PM -0800 References: <OF3BCB3DE3.F7C4CE5C-ON882568B2.004451B7@msianet.org>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 06:38:26PM -0800, Robert@msia.org wrote: > Dear FreeBSD: > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 3.4 on a Dell Dimemsion XPS P133c to > prove to my boss that even on what our company considers an outdated > machine, a UN*X operating system will still be more robust, stable, and > configurable than our current NT Servers. I need some help. The CD-ROM > that comes with this Dell is made by NEC and isn't responding properly. I > have tried rebuilding the kernel with various paramaters to no avail. > > Here is the load-time error (more or less -- it flashes by): > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > unit 0 ATAPI (NEC 273/4.21removable I/O ready) > ATAPI1.0 unknown phase > ... > controller not ready for cmd > controller not ready for cmd > > Then FreeBSD boots fine but I can't mount the drive. > > ANY help is greatly appreciated here .... I've been bragging about the > wonders of FreeBSD (which *ran* the ISP I used to work for in Berkeley :-) > and want to show it's stuff. I have one that does the same thing on an old P5 to, wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC2540H> wd0: 515MB (1056384 sectors), 1048 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:260/.110>, removable, dma, iordis atapi0.1: invalid command phase, ireason=0x0, status=50<ready,opdone>, error=0 I thought this might be why the 4.0 kernel would panic when loading onto this machine, but it did it even when the CDROM was disconnected. Now I think it might be the IDE controller itself, and I wonder if IDE controller is to blame for this ATAPI error too. You would not happen to know what type of IDE controller you have? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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