Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:06:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM probe problems Message-ID: <199909190206.TAA20983@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:23:29 BST." <19990917202329.A302@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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> (the wcd0 line is always present.) On another machine, the boot process > doesn't even get as far as FreeBSD, the BIOS just gives a hard disk > failure message. Yes, this *does* suggest the CD drive is dodgy, but > since it sometimes works OK on the machine it was bought for, it would > seem all is not lost. No. It just means the drive is marginal. We hardly have enough time to support hardware that works properly, and like any good vendor we are going to point at the fact that the drive doesn't work at all on the other machine and say "the drive is junk, get another one". You're welcome, alternatively, to sit down with the SFF8020 spec (and addenda) and work out just _how_ the drive is broken. This may be an illuminating process. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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