Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@plutotech.com Subject: Re: kern/12495: 3.1 install fails to detect Toshiba CDROM on AHA1740 adapter Message-ID: <199907051850.UAA00913@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199907050933.DAA75628@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Jul 5, 1999 3:33:58 am"
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As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > [ If you don't CC messages to me, it'll take a lot longer to get a reply. ] OK, done. > > Hi Ken, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > On your question: yes, there was a 3.1 release CD in the drive during > > the boot. > > Okay, that rules out that problem. > > > And you are right, the Toshiba drive is not exactly an ancient device. > > Not new either, it is a 4x > > cdrom. > > > > What puzzles me is the fact that 2.2.x has always worked just fine, > > I have multiple of the > > same Toshiba model in both my Intel and Alpha machines. > > It's not as puzzling as you might think. We don't wait for the CDROM drive > to finish probing before we start booting. So if sysinstall probes right > away, it might not see the cdrom drive. Right, I should have thought of that myself (from my adventures with the Pioneer CD changer drive). > The old SCSI layer probed things sequentially, so you would finish probing > everything, no matter how long it took, before any booting took place. Right. Maybe the install kernel should stick to sequential probing? I don't particularly like 'time dependent' probing with the variety of hardware that is out there. > > I'll probably give 3.2-release a try next Saturday. > > Good idea, it's possible that'll fix the problem, although I'm not so sure > it will. I'll post results later. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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