From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 04:01:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFEA106564A for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 04:01:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD578FC14 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 04:01:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (pool-71-109-144-133.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.144.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o4N41FB9007707 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 22 May 2010 21:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) References: <6D48A7EF-6412-4084-A334-970D3D50A013@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <9EA21187-5E9F-4E86-8B82-53EC73DD8410@lafn.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Doug Hardie Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 21:01:13 -0700 To: Adam Vande More X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: atapicam issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 04:01:16 -0000 On 22 May 2010, at 20:47, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: > I have 2 systems running 8.0 installed from the same CD. One of them = shows 2 PASS devices as expected and camcontrol devlist shows the = appropriate devices. They work as expected. >=20 > The other does not show any PASS devices and camcontrol devlist shows = nothing. Doing a kldload atapicam installs the PASS devices and then = camcontrol works properly. Why would that system require atapicam to be = manually added? That module was not loaded on the working system. I = installed it there first by accident but it had no detrimental effect. >=20 > I don't find any reference to atapi or atapicam in the various rc = files._______________________________________________ >=20 > atapicam is loaded from /boot/loader.conf as most hardware kernel mods = are. AFAIK, something would have needed to changed on your working = system the behavior you report. Perhaps you followed the handbook's = instructions about cd burning long ago and forgot you edited the config? >=20 >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/creating-cds.html Both machines were installed from the same CD over old Windows systems. = They were installed within a few days of each other. loader.conf only = has "console=3Dcomconsole". Reading through the handbook page above it = indicates that atapicam needs to be loaded in /boot/loader.conf. I'll = add that to both machines. Makes me wonder why the one worked. kldstat = showed it was not loaded.=