Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:05:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Aernoudt Bottemanne <bottemanne@capitolonline.nl> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom and zip (both ide) problem Message-ID: <14347.17444.883642.500165@grits.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <380B50F8.4335FDB5@capitolonline.nl> References: <14346.31193.248797.237477@grits.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910171902490.77636-100000@beppo.feral.com> <14347.6330.820928.627692@grits.cs.duke.edu> <380B50F8.4335FDB5@capitolonline.nl>
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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
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