Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:54:41 From: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com> To: ralph@maxsoft.com, matt@gsicomp.on.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, izotov@gol.ru, tait@wego.com, ivanfetch@technologist.com, timcm@umich.edu Subject: Re: ata1-master: <MATSHITA cr-581/1c05> CDROM device - NO DRIVER! Message-ID: <F157SsfqS78KgCjHR7c00007c19@hotmail.com>
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>Here's the output from dmesg, which now also contains several strange >"config" lines which I don't understand and which might possibly be >relevant: <snip> >config> di sn0 >config> di lnc0 >config> di ie0 >config> di fe0 >config> di cs0 >config> di bt0 >No such device: bt0 >Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. >config> di aic0 >No such device: aic0 >Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. >config> di aha0 >No such device: aha0 >Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. >config> di adv0 >No such device: adv0 >Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. >config> q What those config lines are is the output of a script being run at boot time. The letters di means disable and the other letters are the drivers for some network and scsi cards. I can tell you that but I cannot remember where these commands come from, I know they are in one of the files in the /boot directory. If you'd like to find out which file it is log into the system and type these commands... cd /boot grep sn0 * ... and note the name of the file that gets returned. The use of these lines, as I understand it, is to disable some hardware before the kernel initialises everything. You might do this if you had hardware conflicts or if you purposely wanted to stop some hardware from being used in FreeBSD. Obviously the commands that produce the errors "No such device" are not needed on your system as it does not contain the hardware you are trying to disable. I hope that helps you understand that little bit of the boot up process. As for your CD I cannot help much. I can say that those devices you see being disabled (without generating an error) are all network cards so this shouldn't affect the operation of your CD-ROM drive. Good luck Aaron Hill _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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