Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:12:06 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com> To: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> Cc: Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI <kevin.choi@cnes.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I make my IDE CD-ROM work ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317081031.316G-100000@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com> In-Reply-To: <199803171506.KAA28644@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu>
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Jamie Norwood wrote: > > > > Hello there, > > I have a FreeBSD v2.1 bought from Walnut Creek CDROM. > > I installed this on my machine which has a Goldstar IDE type CD-ROM. > > Well, > > The curious thing is that I am capable to detect the CDROM > > from the FreeBSD boot diskette and install whatever I want, but > > once the system is installed and restart the machine, > > the CD-Rom will never be available for the system. > > > > I'm coming to see the support IDE for the IDE cdrom is yet alpha version, > > but how do you explain this phenomene and > > what is the solution to have my CD-ROM back so that I can add some more > > packages whenever I want ? > > > > Thank you very much for your attention and for your rapid answer as well > > !!!!! :) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI > > > > I find myself having a similar problem. I installed FreeBSD > 3.0-971225-SNAP, and when it boots, I get (from dmesg): > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <GCD-R580B/1.05>, removable, accel, dma, iordis > > So it is definately seeing it, but it doesn't seem to be correctly setting > up the /dev/wcd* and /dev/rwcd* entries. Enclosed below are the /dev > entries for those: > > test3# ls -la wcd* > brw-r----- 1 root operator 19, 0 Mar 17 06:47 wcd0a > brw-r----- 1 root operator 19, 2 Mar 17 06:47 wcd0c > test3# ls -la rwcd* > crw-r----- 1 root operator 69, 0 Mar 17 06:47 rwcd0a > crw-r----- 1 root operator 69, 2 Mar 17 06:47 rwcd0c > test3# > > Hope we can get aid on this! :) > > Jamie So what makes you think these entries are wrong? What are you doing to try to access the cdrom? Are you mounting the cdrom? If so what errors are you getting? Brian Beattie Atlas PrePaid Services Brian_Beattie@atlas.com 503.228.1400x4355 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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