From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 24 10:31:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-30-192-11.mmcable.com [65.30.192.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0D737B41A for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g2OIUeT32710 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:30:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:30:40 -0600 From: mikea To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my system doesn't recognize the two cd-rom units i have Message-ID: <20020324123040.A32659@mikea.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: mikea , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cremenescu@terrasat.ro on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:16:59PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Razvan Cremenescu wrote: > > i installed the 4.4 release and did the cvsup on a periodic basis > (daily) with full recompilation of the kernel. > it now responds to "uname -a" with: > "FreeBSD xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #7: Sun Mar 24 > 03:12:25 EET 2002 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/compile/xxxxx > i386" > > > but i have a problem. my system doesn't recognize the two cd-rom units i > have. one of them is CD-RW. > i checked the config file for the kernel and it has support for ATA > drives. > > what can i do? First, did the previous system see them both? If not, then you might want to check the BIOS configuration, make sure that they aren't both jumpered as master, and so forth. They _do_ both have power applied, open when you push the button, and so on, yes? That's a mistake I made last week. If the old system did see them both properly, and the new system doesn't, then does /var/run/dmesg.boot have a line for each of the CD drives? If it does (see example below), : acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using PIO4 then you have a different problem, and need more help than I can give you. If it doesn't, then you need to track _that_ down and correct it. Probably there will be an error message where the system tried to determine what was there and couldn't; that may lead you to the cause. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message