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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 12:50:41 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Michael Wallis <m_wall@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: plextor SCSI cdrom
Message-ID:  <19980528125041.I4179@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <356CCBD7.DF1D922B@hotmail.com>; from Michael Wallis on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 09:28:39PM -0500
References:  <356CCBD7.DF1D922B@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, 27 May 1998 at 21:28:39 -0500, Michael Wallis wrote:
> Hi, people--
>     I seem to have a slight problem with FreeBSD version 2.2.6 seeing my
> cdrom and tape drive. I have an Adaptec AHA-2940UW controller with a
> Plextor 12x cdrom and Conner tape drive running off of it. NT sees
> everything just fine, but when I boot from the cd to install BSD, it
> probes the controller and finds nothing on any of the id's. It gets an
> unknown response and says that the board is not responding. On the fifth
> id it should find the cdrom, but it passes over it just like everything
> else. The cables and termination are just fine. I can get as far as
> selecting which media I want to install from, and when I select cdrom,
> it simply says it can't find one. If anyone has any ideas, they'd be
> appreciated.

Let's see the dmesg output.

Greg
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