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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:58:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ide cdrom drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303125757.20872H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.16.19980301212715.2e47642e@postoffice.bellatlantic.net>

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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Donn Miller wrote:

> I have an ide (ATAPI) cdrom drive configured as secodary slave.  It isn't
> being probed at all even though I've got in my kernel config file
> 
> device	wcd0 
> 
> and all that.  Also, I don't see wcd0 listed when I enter -c at the boot
> prompt.  Do I need to configure the cdrom as master to have it work?

wcd is a child of the IDE controller wdc, like the wd disk driver is.  If
your CDROM is found it'll show up, otherwise it won't even display.  

Try moving your CD onto your primary controller.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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