From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 23 18:33:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06147 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 18:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f160.hotmail.com [207.82.251.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA06140 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 18:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m_wall@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 19440 invoked by uid 0); 24 May 1998 01:33:11 -0000 Message-ID: <19980524013311.19439.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 208.143.112.137 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 23 May 1998 18:33:11 PDT X-Originating-IP: [208.143.112.137] From: "m. w." To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: plextor SCSI CDROM? Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 18:33:11 PDT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey guys, I was installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 after moving some partitions around on my drive today, and was apalled to find that when I tried to select which media to install from BSD would not read from the cd drive. It gives me a message saying that there is no CDROM drive found. I have a Gateway 2000 Pentium II machine with an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI controller and a Plextor 12x SCSI CDROM. Shouldn't BSD recognize any SCSI drives running off of a supported SCSI controller? I looked in the "hardware supported" list of the installation notes, and Plextor isn't listed under SCSI devices, but I just wanted to make sure... Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Also, all of my previous OSes like Windoze 95 (gag) and NT 4.0 have seen my trusty Seagate 9.1 gig drive as being an 8676 Mbyte drive instead of 9.1 gigs like it's supposed to be. (So does FreeBSD on bootup!) Even BSD's Fdisk sees it as that. The geometry cannot be changed from the CMOS setup since it's not IDE, and I can't change it in the Adaptec bios either. Like I said, any help or advice or whatever you could give me would be great. I'd be bummed if I had to stick with Win NT, cuz I kinda wanted both NT _and_ BSD on my machine. Oh, would it make a difference if I booted from the floppy instead of the CDROM to install? Thanks guys-- Michael Wallis ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message