From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jun 8 10:55:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03335 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:55:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.merit.edu (home.merit.edu [198.108.60.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03292 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: (from web@localhost) by home.merit.edu (8.8.8/merit-2.0) id NAA00742 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:55:31 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Message-Id: <199806081755.NAA00742@home.merit.edu> Subject: Dell Inspiron 3000 laptop and CD-ROM To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:55:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A co-worker has a Dell Inspiron 3000 200MHz with 32MB RAM and 2.1 GB disk. There is a Toshiba XM-1702B CD-ROM in there along with every- thing else -- a marvel of Mechanical Engineering (*grin*) The only problem is this: the FreeBSD 2.2.6-REL sysinstall program cannot recognize the first (of four!) CD-ROMs (although Windows 95 had no problem -- that is how he got the boot.flp image onto floppy). I was having an email discussion with Greg Lehey and he thought the Master/Slave issue may be involved here, but I don't know how or why, and I sure as heck don't know how Dell puts all that stuff together... Any ideas how we go about "seeing" the CD-ROM in the Toshiba drive? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network, Inc. Email: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C Phone: (734) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (734) 647-3185 [ Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: Scientists have announced discovering ] [ a meteorite which will strike the earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX ] [ coders expressed relief for being spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message