Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:56:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gustavo Lozano Ibarra <glozano@academ02.maz.itesm.mx>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing problem with two ide cdroms Message-ID: <19980630085653.P1880@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199806292117.OAA20047@academ02.maz.itesm.mx>; from Gustavo Lozano Ibarra on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 08:17:40AM -0600 References: <199806292117.OAA20047@academ02.maz.itesm.mx>
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(removing -current from the CC:; there's no evidence it has anything to do with -current). On Monday, 29 June 1998 at 8:17:40 -0600, Gustavo Lozano Ibarra wrote: > I was trying to install freebsd in a computer with two cdroms without > success.. in the first Ide port I have a hard dis (master), in the second > ide port I have a cdr (master) Ah. That's news. > and a cdrom(slave)... but when I try to install freebsd from the > freebsd cd... the installation program freeze in the probing device > section.. What can I do?Does Freebsd support two cd units Yes, again. > ok, here is my hardware specification.. the second port is in the > motherboard and I have connected both cd units in this port... > both units share irq 15 and port 0x170... Well, it's the controller that uses these values, so there's nothing to share. > Windows can use this shared irq and detect both units... but what about > freebsd... We've generally connected IDE CD-ROMs as slaves. Would it be a lot of trouble to reconfigure like that (connect the CD-ROM as primary slave)? In any case, if you tell us what kind of hardware you have, it might help. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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