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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.1-RELEASE -- can't find CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904081234380.25113-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <14092.58232.661990.555410@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Reynolds~ wrote:

> 
> Sorry to rehash this again, but I cannot fathom that I'm the only person on
> the earth who has seen this problem (if it's a real problem).
> 
> I am running an Asus P2B-DS, BIOS 1008, Adaptec onboard 7890 controller with
> 2 Viking II LVD drives, a Toshiba CD-ROM and Yamaha CD-RW hanging from the
> respective outlets. As far as I know and can tell, all termination is correct.
> NT can see all devices and seems pretty "stable" (as far as NT goes :) in
> accessing them.
> 
> When I boot from the 3.1-RELEASE floppies and get to the "Media" choice
> under sysinstall, it simply will not recognize that I've got a CD-ROM device
> connected to the bus. Sysinstall comes up too quickly for me to see the
> "probe" messages for the scsi bus during boot.

Then hit Scroll-Lock at the main menu and use the arrow keys to scroll up
and see what the messages were.

Check your SCSI IDs.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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