Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:34:38 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation freeBSD Message-ID: <20030220193438.GA29012@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <DF97342F80C70D43AEC6A4E751204F830104DFC6@msdwexch13.msdwis.com> References: <DF97342F80C70D43AEC6A4E751204F830104DFC6@msdwexch13.msdwis.com>
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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:35:45PM -0500, Robinson, Scott wrote: > Thanks Nathan. >=20 > I'll try to correct and clarify my previous thread. Following the > installation handbook I had to boot from floppies. When I got to the Ker= nel > Configuration Menu I chose the full-screen visual mode (suggested). That > screen shows active drivers on top and inactive on the bottom. I deleted > the conflicts and was left active drivers on the expanded driver list > (figure 2.3 in the handbook). I assume the one pertinent to the CDROM is > the "ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller" which has a Dev: ata0, IRQ: 1= 4, > and Port: 0x1f0. =20 >=20 > With no conflicts I then quit and saved. The PC performed its device probe > and reviewing the buffer I saw the response "ata0: ATA identify retries > exceeded". Continuing with the sysinstall I am unable to install > distributions from CDROM. The response is (paraphrase): CD/DVD device n= ot > found. It then asks me to check the configuration. >=20 > No I'm not 100% sure the CDROM is 100% functional (it hasn't been used > recently) although I've never had a problem before. I shall attempt to= =20 >=20 > Could you elaborate on the following: > >As far as > >I know you should only need to add the following line to your kernconf > >for most IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives: > >device atapicd >=20 > How is that done? Based on your orignal email is sounded as if you had already installed FreeBSD and were now trying to bring up your CD-ROM. It didn't occur to me that you were referencing the kernel config menu of the installer. When I speak of adding "device atapicd" to your kernel config I am talking of compiling a new kernel after you have already installed the system. At this point it, that wouldn't concern you. Further, the GENERIC kernel that is installed already has support for ATAPI device. At any rate, it seems to me like something might be wrong with either the cable or the device itself. Again, it wouldn't hurt to try another cable, or move the device to it's own IDE channel so that you can eliminate the possibility that there is some problem with master/slave setup that is confusing one or both of the devices. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+VS3OWZYS9EJQoEwRAg3ZAKCJMBOkZ6xtuAurQ8TRXf5haEMnbQCeOR0Q BJnjHMV+UqgPWR0ErHeQfPA= =CuAO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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