Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 06:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD problem during probe Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.970122065319.25368A-100000@austral> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970122002138.1335A-100000@lugh.kerris.com>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike Kerr wrote: > > Howdy, > > I have been successful at installing freebsd on my system using a Mitsumi > 8x CDROM. My problem now is that I can't get it to mount properly. For > some reason it doesn't show up in the probe. > > It's an IDE drive, connected to the second IDE port on my motherbaord. > Alternately, I've connected it as the slave on the first port. Neither > configurations work. This is perplexing given that it was able to probe > it fine during the installation process. I'm pretty much at a loss as to > what to do about this. Does anybody have any suggestions as to a > solution, or has anybody come across this before? > > Mike. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr > Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/ > mkerr@kerris.com | Web Guy, etc. > > I had all sorts of similar troubles with 2.1.5, and eventually found that the following snippet from the kernel config file works well. There is a long pause during the probe on the second controller (about 30 seconds?) controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr # disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 # disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM I have now installed the 2.2-BETA, and the boot floppy finds the CD-ROM correctly, and the default kernel also worked for me.
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