Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:24:19 +0100 From: "Steve Howe" <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Ex-buffoon seeks ATAPI CDROM advice Message-ID: <001301beaf78$4f666700$67b4883e@default>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEAF80.A03D5000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, first thanks to Oscar, Mark, Chris, Woody & Doug for the=20 useful advice last time I mailed this group. I eventually successfully installed FreeBSD from a DOS (spit) partition. I am now able to do some unixy things. Hoorah!=20 But now I want to get my hands on the ports residing on the=20 CDROMs. I am still having trouble getting the kernel to recognise=20 my CDROM though.=20 As Doug pointed out last time round an ATAPI IDE CDROM,=20 while not supported in the novice installation, is referenced in the GENERIC kernel. So in the MYKERNEL version (which I have now succesfully=20 built and installed 6 times!) I have uncommented-out the: options ATAPI options ATAPI_STATIC device wcd0 entries, while leaving, as advised on the web site, the=20 controller wdc1 disk wd2 disk wd3 options which actually point at the relevant controller. At boot-up time however the kernel seems to make no attempt=20 to resolve the wcd0 device I've told it to in MYKERNEL, and=20 consequently I am not able to mount it after I've logged in. I had a search round the website and found one link which seemed to suggest that the ATAPI interface was experimental and should be=20 regarded as alpha. So is this a problem in 2.2.8? Most advice gratefully received, thanks, Steve Howe Harpenden England (0 Sweden 0) =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEAF80.A03D5000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>Hi,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> first thanks to Oscar, Mark, Chris, Woody & Doug for the = </DIV> <DIV>useful advice last time I mailed this group. I eventually</DIV> <DIV>successfully installed FreeBSD from a DOS (spit) partition.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> I am now able to do some unixy things. Hoorah! </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> But now I want to get my hands on the ports residing on the = </DIV> <DIV>CDROMs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> I am still having trouble getting the kernel to recognise = </DIV> <DIV>my CDROM though. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> As Doug pointed out last time round an ATAPI IDE CDROM, = </DIV> <DIV>while not supported in the novice installation,</DIV> <DIV>is referenced in the GENERIC kernel.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> So in the MYKERNEL version (which I have now succesfully = </DIV> <DIV>built and installed 6 times!) I have uncommented-out the:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> options ATAPI</DIV> <DIV> options ATAPI_STATIC</DIV> <DIV> device wcd0</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>entries, while leaving, as advised on the web site, the </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> controller wdc1</DIV> <DIV> disk = =20 wd2</DIV> <DIV> disk = =20 wd3</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>options which actually point at the relevant controller.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At boot-up time however the kernel seems to make no attempt </DIV> <DIV>to resolve the wcd0 device I've told it to in MYKERNEL, and </DIV> <DIV>consequently I am not able to mount it after I've logged in.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I had a search round the website and found one link which = seemed</DIV> <DIV>to suggest that the ATAPI interface was experimental and should be = </DIV> <DIV>regarded as alpha. So is this a problem in 2.2.8?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Most advice gratefully received,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thanks,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Steve Howe</DIV> <DIV>Harpenden</DIV> <DIV>England (0 Sweden 0)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEAF80.A03D5000-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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