Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:50:12 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: sos@freebsd.org Subject: IDE CD-ROM failure Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.961211094456.17656A-100000@austral>
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I expect this has already been reported, but just in case... (I have already posted this in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, and apologize if this is poor etiquette.) I just upgraded my system to a Pentium 120, and added a CD-ROM, a Panasonic CR-583 8x unit (actually made by Matsushita, I think). For the first try, it was on the second IDE connector on the motherboard,as I have two hard disks on the first. It works properly under Win95 (don't you just *hate* it when something works on Win95 and won't on FreeBSD!?) As others have reported, it times out while trying to detect it. I also tried it by putting my Windows disk and the CD-ROM on the first IDE port, and putting the FreeBSD disk by itself on the second port, resetting the master/slave connectors correctly. It then pauses for about a minute after detecting the CD-ROM in the Award Bios, and then boots partway into FreeBSD, having successfully identified both hard disks and the Cd-ROM. It says it is trying to boot from wd(1,a), and panics. Is there some other magic incantation I could use for the boot command? I guessed at wd(2,a), but that worked very badly indeed! It still all works with Win95 in this configuration, including the CD-ROM. I am still running FreeBSD 2.1.0 - a main reason to get the CD-ROM was to be able to upgrade easily. Am I likely to have any more luck with 2.1.5 or 2.1.6, or should I wait for 2.2 until I buy the Walnut Creek CD? I do at least still have a running system. Any help will be much appreciated!
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