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Date:      Wed, 04 Aug 1999 10:51:35 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM
Cc:        Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrom detection problem
Message-ID:  <37A87DA7.D6055B9@3-cities.com>
References:  <XFMail.990804081635.vagner@vagner.com>

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vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM wrote:
> 
> No i havent tried make clean but i did do a make depend
> and then a make.

How did you upgrade because the bootblocks are different at 3.2.

> 
> What i might have to do is make up a dos (yuk) bootable
> floppy with the drivers installed on it to see if i can
> access the cdrom from dos.
> 
> all other thingsx petering out i will have to purchase
> a scsi cd-rom drive.

I have seen some messages where the CDROM worked as the master but not
the slave. I'm running 3.2 with 3 IDE HD's and my IDE CDROM is the
secondary master.

Kent

> 
> On 04-Aug-99 Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 3 Aug 99, at 22:45, George Vagner wrote:
> >
> >> freebsd cannot find my cd-rom anymore since i upgraded
> >> to version 3.2 from 2.2.7
> >>
> >> a grep of dmesg shows
> >>
> >> wdc0 not found at 0x1f0
> >> wdc1 not found at 0x170
> >>
> >> it is detected by the bios and swapping
> >> controllers and cdroms didnt help.
> >
> > I'm guessing.
> >
> > I checked my notes at http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/upgrade31.htm
> > and under 6:17pm I found that I too was having trouble with my CDROM.  But
> > in my /etc/fstab I have:
> >
> > /dev/wcd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> >
> > Then under 7:08pm it talks about doing a make clean before I make the
> > kernel.  Did you try that?
> > --
> > Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited
> > The FreeBSD Diary     - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/
> > NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/
> > The Racing System     - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm
> 
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail: vagner@vagner.com or kf7nn@kf7nn.com
> Date: 04-Aug-99
> Time: 08:13:39
> 
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> I am not I, I'm a tree."
>         But another, more sane,
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> And covered his pants leg with pee.
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