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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:23:41 -0500
From:      Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net>
To:        Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Subject:   Re: Problem Detecting IDE CDROM in 3.1-Stable
Message-ID:  <19990319082341.A3074@intrepid.net>
In-Reply-To: <36F1CB7A.563E86AF@seattleu.edu>; from Eric Hodel on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:58:50PM -0800
References:  <19990318190452.A30629@intrepid.net> <36F1CB7A.563E86AF@seattleu.edu>

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On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:58:50PM -0800, Eric Hodel wrote:
> 
> Are you sure you've enabled your IDE controller in BIOS?  If your
> IDE-CDROM is your only IDE device it may have been turned off.  Also
> check to make sure it is probed by BIOS, and try moving it to primay
> master.

Moving it to primary master did the trick.  Not being much of a
hardware guy: is that a FreeBSD issue, or an IDE issue?  I spoke with
someone who said some of the OS's out there don't cough on that....

--Mark


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