From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 18 9: 5:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AD9150F1 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grits.cs.duke.edu (grits.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.36]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA25845; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:05:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grits.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA58285; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:05:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:05:27 -0400 (EDT) To: Aernoudt Bottemanne Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom and zip (both ide) problem In-Reply-To: <380B50F8.4335FDB5@capitolonline.nl> References: <14346.31193.248797.237477@grits.cs.duke.edu> <14347.6330.820928.627692@grits.cs.duke.edu> <380B50F8.4335FDB5@capitolonline.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14347.17444.883642.500165@grits.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aernoudt Bottemanne writes: > Hi, > > During system installation FreeBSD can not find the cdrom device (nor the zip > drive). > The srm console does have the devices (and for example I can upgrade the firmware > from > the ide cdrom drive....) > Any suggestions on how to fix this ? > > Thanks, > Aernoudt > Great. Answer enough questions & people start mailing right to you... ;-) Ide on alpha requires the new ata driver. In 4.0, we don't consider the ata driver mature enough to include in a GENERIC or installation kernel. Also, an install to an ide disk has never been tested (to the best of my knowledge). Once you install the system, you can re-build your kernel with the options: # ATA and ATAPI devices # This is work in progress, use at your own risk. # It currently reuses the majors of wd.c and friends. # It cannot co-exist with the old system in one kernel. # You only need one "controller ata0" for it to find all # PCI devices on modern machines. controller ata0 device atadisk0 # ATA disk drives device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd0 # ATAPI floppy drives device atapist0 # ATAPI tape drives The kernel should then see your IDE devices. If you want to use -stable, you can give up now. IDE devices will not work on alpha in 3.x w/o signifigant effort. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message