Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:55:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Neil I. Fowler Wright" <neil@corpex.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirai 8speed CDRom Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961111215401.24357M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v01510101aead53562907@[194.72.255.16]>
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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Neil I. Fowler Wright wrote: > I have a P100 with a 2.2GB EIDE HD and a the above Mirai 8 speed CDrom, and I > have successfully installed FreeBSD 2.1.5. However when I put the same CDROm > drive as master or slave into my P133 (which has two EIDE 1.7GB Drives on the > primary EIDE slot) it fails to recognise the existence of the CDROM either > during kernel boot for wdc1 or when selecting Media Type for Installation. > > Help??? ATAPI is very, very finiky. Different motherboards, controllers, etc have different effects. Try swapping the slave IDE with the CDROM and put that IDE on the secondary controller. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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