Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:35:45 -0500 From: "Robinson, Scott" <Scott.Robinson@morganstanley.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation freeBSD Message-ID: <DF97342F80C70D43AEC6A4E751204F830104DFC6@msdwexch13.msdwis.com>
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Thanks Nathan. I'll try to correct and clarify my previous thread. Following the installation handbook I had to boot from floppies. When I got to the Kernel Configuration Menu I chose the full-screen visual mode (suggested). That screen shows active drivers on top and inactive on the bottom. I deleted the conflicts and was left active drivers on the expanded driver list (figure 2.3 in the handbook). I assume the one pertinent to the CDROM is the "ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller" which has a Dev: ata0, IRQ: 14, and Port: 0x1f0. With no conflicts I then quit and saved. The PC performed its device probe and reviewing the buffer I saw the response "ata0: ATA identify retries exceeded". Continuing with the sysinstall I am unable to install distributions from CDROM. The response is (paraphrase): CD/DVD device not found. It then asks me to check the configuration. No I'm not 100% sure the CDROM is 100% functional (it hasn't been used recently) although I've never had a problem before. I shall attempt to Could you elaborate on the following: >As far as >I know you should only need to add the following line to your kernconf >for most IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives: >device atapicd How is that done? **** Important Notice to Recipients **** It is important that you do not use e-mail to request, authorize or effect the purchase or sale of any security or commodity, to send fund transfer instructions, or to effect any other transactions. Any such request, orders, or instructions that you send will not be accepted and will not be processed by Morgan Stanley. **************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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