From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 21:55:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24231 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24226 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA24436; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:55:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:55:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Neil I. Fowler Wright" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirai 8speed CDRom In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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