Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:34:06 -0600 From: "Mark Carlson" <carlsonmark@gmail.com> To: "Tom Evans" <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD to see my dvd drive Message-ID: <bab706780707271434m30ca9550l5de373c1abea3f29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1185439753.1457.1.camel@localhost> References: <b9af85daa3366ac9988301d569c186f4@gmail.com> <1185439753.1457.1.camel@localhost>
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On 7/26/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:07 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > > I've reposted this from freebsd-questions, and added some minor details. > > > > Yesterday I bought and installed a Lite-ON SATA DVD Writer for my > > computer. But FreeBSD fails to recognize it at all. > > <snip> > > Hi Joshua. > > FreeBSD doesn't support SATA ATAPI devices iirc. > > Sorry > > That's funny, I was able to install 6.2-release (both 32-bit and 64-bit) just fine from my SATA DVD drive a few weeks ago (LG Super Multi DVD Writer 18x18x10 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer Lightscribe.) I had no idea FreeBSD didn't support it until I read this email. I have since upgraded to 7.0-CURRENT (32-bit): FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jul 14 21:22:14 MDT 2007 Now, from my dmesg (sorry, didn't keep one from 6.2...): ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1 ata5: SATA ATAPI devices not supported yet ata5: [ITHREAD] I know my BIOS setup is not the same now as it was when I did the initial install, but AFAIK, the only difference is that I had to disable the onboard RAID controller to install to the RAID array then re-enable it to boot off of the array (funny, I know, but it was the only way the BIOS would let me boot off of the SATA DVD drive at all!) -Mark Carlson For posterity, the mobo was a S3000AHLX, which works OK, it'll be nicer when I can get the SMBUS controller working... if I can, that is.
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