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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:35:23 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        mistwolf@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu (Jamie Norwood)
Cc:        kevin.choi@cnes.fr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How can I make my IDE CD-ROM work ?
Message-ID:  <199803171635.KAA13174@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803171506.KAA28644@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> from Jamie Norwood at "Mar 17, 98 07:06:38 am"

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In a previous message, Jamie Norwood said:
> > 
> > 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

This is the second IDE controller not the CDROM.

Do you have:
device          wcd0    #IDE CD-ROM

in your config?


You're dmesg should look something like:

wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <MATSHITA CR-585/ZP18>, removable, accel, dma, iordis
wcd0: 4125Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, ejectable tray
wcd0: 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked                 




> 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
> 
> 
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