Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:08:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: stanislav shalunov <shalunov@att.com> Cc: kstewart@3-cities.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't mount CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121207330.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905062110.RAA92403@tuzik.lz.att.com>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, stanislav shalunov wrote: > > From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> > > > Do you have a spare IDE hard disk laying around? The IDE probe isn't too > > reliable, and putting a disk on there may help. > > At last I surrendered and got a different CDROM drive. And it worked. > > That ``bad'' drive works with non-FreeBSD systems, so I don't really > know what's causing this, but really looks like it's the FreeBSD IDE > probe that is at fault. The IDE probe is hard to do; I know of three iterations it's goine through and it still isn't reliable. We should all know by now that IDE hardware sucks, SCSI and FireWire are the future, and I will rule the world. :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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