Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:35:11 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: anton chirita <x68@home.ro> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting atapi cdrom Message-ID: <3B249EDF.54EA7721@i-clue.de> References: <01060918244900.01552@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> <3B246775.388CD556@i-clue.de> <01061112481800.00752@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro>
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anton chirita schrieb:
>
> please excuse the lack of information and thank you for the support
> i have limited hardware knowledge, but i think that my cdrom is atapi
> compatible and is the primary slave (device /dev/hdb in linux)
> the hard-drive is the primary master (device /dev/hda for linux)
> here are some lines from dmesg:
>
> ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Seems this CD-ROM has problems. Don't tell us "but it works with
Windumbs" -- it pretends to work. It does not work properly. Check ATA
cables and master- / slave-jumpers on both hard disk and CD-ROM.
HTH
-Christoph Sold
> ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable
> ad0: 8223MB <ST38410A> [16708/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
>
> i'm trying also to disable dma for the hard-drive
> sysctl hw.atamodes says "dma,---,---,---,"
> i don't know what value to assign to disable dma
>
> regards,
> anton
>
> On Monday 11 June 2001 09:38 am, you wrote:
> > anton chirita schrieb:
> > > hello
> > > i have a 40x atapi cdrom
> > > i burned a 4.3-install.iso and booted from it
> > > when i choosed cdrom as instalation media i got the error "no cdrom
> > > device" after that i installed from a dos drive
> > > i recompiled the kernel with a "device atapicd" line in the conf file but
> > > i still can't make the device and mount the cdrom drive
> > > this is the first time i try freebsd
> > > above that my hard-drive led stands on all the time
> > >
> > > how can i solve this problems?
> >
> > Since you do not include any information, this is only
> > speculation:either you got a very old CD-ROM drive, which is not
> > ATAPI-compatible, or your drive is configured as slave and connected to
> > an ATA port without a master drive.
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