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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:58:09 -0600
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        Greg Satz <satz@iranger.com>
Cc:        Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware2 cannot "see" ATAPI cdrom under 4.x stable
Message-ID:  <20010223225808.A4827@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <B6BC3BFE.F342%satz@iranger.com>
References:  <20010223163409.A8198@polands.org> <B6BC3BFE.F342%satz@iranger.com>

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> >> vmware2 port installs and starts properly but cannot see the ATAPI cdrom.
> >> System is running 4.X stable. No hard disk is configured and the guest os is
> >> either win95 or win98 from floppy.
> >> 
> > try ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/cdrom
> >
> Thanks for the response. I just tried it but unfortunately it didn't help.
> Same error message.
> 
> As I stared at the error it became clear that
> 
> Feb 23 16:00:43: VIDE: (0x170) OUTB Cmd of 0xA1 for non-existent drive 1
> Feb 23 16:00:45: VIDE: (0x1F0) OUTB Cmd of 0xA1 for non-existent drive 1
> Feb 23 16:00:46: F(173):311 0x2fff 2
> Feb 23 16:00:46: VIDE: (0x170) ATAPI Unexpected IN len 2 w/o active Cmd
> 
> the hex number in parenthesis is the IDE IO locations. My kernel thinks
> there is ata1 on apapci0 at 0x170. So why isn't vmware2 happy with it? Is it
> worth attempting to report this problem to vmware?
> 
Hmm, symbolic link worked for me.  However, that was before I went to -stable
and haven't re-installed the port yet.  I'll try it tonight and see if I
get anywhere with it.

-- 
Doug

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