Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:54:35 -0700 From: Erik Stainsby <stainsby@telus.net> To: "D. DeCoudras" <ddecoudras@hotmail.com>, freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Config CD-ROM / Identify retries exceeded Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011009205314.00a1a710@pop3.norton.antivirus> In-Reply-To: <F174nFbtIqxuayZ5bvj00013840@hotmail.com>
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LiteON is a very poorly made knock off brand. I have never succeeded in making it work under any *NIX, while it will perform flawlessly for a short while under win32/DOS. Give up and get a real CDR. Sorry. At 23:37 08/10/01 +0000, D. DeCoudras wrote: >If anyone has any suggestions about the following, I'd be most >appreciative ... I have a CD-ROM (LiteON 40x) which is configured >correctly in my PC's BIOS (it boots the FreeBSD 4.4 Install CD no >problem). After installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.4 on my HP Pavilion, >while logged in as root I can't get the CD to mount. I see a few others >have had this problem, as in: > >ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded > >Can anyone suggest the best solution? I'm convinced that my CDROM is >configured correctly in BIOS (I have another IDE disk that I slide into my >PC with a disk tray / slider physical form factor ... it has SuSe Linux on >it and it boots just fine and sees the same CDROM drive with zero problems). > >Thank you for any suggestions. > >-DeCoudras > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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