Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 19:56:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: psygula@hoss.rouge.net Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Problems Message-ID: <19970821195632.OF18585@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <33FC5685.21C6@rouge.net>; from Peter Sygula on Aug 21, 1997 09:53:58 -0500 References: <33FC5685.21C6@rouge.net>
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As Peter Sygula wrote: > I have a generic Pentium Pro 200Mhz motherboard(model num. VS440FX) and > a Gold Star 12x CD-ROM drive (model no. GCD-R542B) and I cannot get > FreeBSD to reckognize the CD drive. Please respond ASAP with any and all > possible solutions. We are on a deadline to get this UNIX box up and > running by next Wednesday. ``ASAP'' is normally nothing you could make friends with in a volunteer project. This software is free, and we make no provisions of any kind for usability. If you're in a commercial world, and can't do something yourself, you need to hire someone. There's a list of consultants available on http://www.freebsd.org (in the gallery, i think). This said, you didn't even include what kind of CD-ROM this might be, nor which version of FreeBSD you're going to install. Neither did you tell us what exactly _has_ been recognized (controller, other drives on controller, etc., basically all the relevated stuff from the boot messages). I assume it's an ATAPI drive? In this case, the probably only chance to get it recognized is to send it over to the responsible developer for testing. If you don't understand why this is, i can only recommend you the reading of the so-called ATA ``standard'' specs. (After you read them, you'll wonder why these drives sometimes do work at all. Buying an ATAPI drive, and claiming about a `deadline' is mutually contradictory, IMHO.) So well, if you've got some more useful information, you might get some more useful answers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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