Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:01:01 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Graeme=20Chambers?= <transform_bsd@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony ATAPI CDRW problems Message-ID: <200108290301.f7T311w72569@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from =?iso-8859-1?q?Graeme=20Chambers?= <transform_bsd@yahoo.com.au> of "Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:59:41 %2B1000." <20010828085941.64262.qmail@web20301.mail.yahoo.com>
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Graeme=20Chambers?= writes: > Hello, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.3 and am having a bit > of trouble with my Sony CRX140E (32x8x4) cdrw drive. I have a Sony 160E jumpered as master on the primary IDE interface with nothing connected as slave, Asus P2B-S MB (Intel BX chipset). Has been the most trouble free IDE CD combination I've ever had. Sony's Windows software stinks, Retrospect rocks! but this is FreeBSD. Installed 4.2-RELEASE on it this afternoon because that's the only CDROM I had laying around. Once again, no problems. Suggest you look for something odd. Such as whether or not the drive is strapped as a slave but has no master on the cable. Or if the BIOS settings have the drive locked in an odd mode. "Ultra DMA enabled" and everything else "auto" worked for me. Classically not all IDE devices pair off well as master/slave on the same cable. Things are much better these days but if the 140E is on the same cable with something else its worth moving to see if that helps. What prompted me to dig into the BIOS on this machine today was the parallel printer port wasn't working under NT4. Then I accidently turned off the secondary IDE and the Zip drive quit working. Took a while to figure out the IDE interface was turned off. Took much less time to find my ISA parallel printer card and built in parallel port were set to the same address. Was dumbfounded as to how changing the built in parallel printer port address clobbered the Zip drive. :-O (answer: it didn't, but the IDE interface was controlled by the line above the parallel printer interface stuff.) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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