Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:24:52 -0400 From: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com> To: 'Thomas David Rivers' <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SCSI CD-ROM not ready if no CD present Message-ID: <8FCA4DE144C8D211A4D30090273D14196F40@BLUE>
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Err...my bad. During the initial install sysinstall would not let me install from the CDROM if it wasn't present during boot, I erroneously extrapolated this behavior to the installed system. Now that I think about it again, I seem to remember a warning in the CD's liner notes about having the CD available during boot when installing. Sorry for the noise. Thanks for the prompt response. __________ Rick Siple ricksiple@mpainc.com -----Original Message----- From: Thomas David Rivers [mailto:rivers@dignus.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 4:09 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; RickSiple@mpainc.com Subject: Re: SCSI CD-ROM not ready if no CD present > I just installed FreeBSD 3.1 onto an older machine that is using a > AHA-1542CF SCSI controller, Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM, and two Seagate SCSI hard > drives. All seems to work okay with the exception that the CD-ROM will > report NOT READY when probed at boot if there is no CD-ROM in the drive. Is > this normal behavior? My home computer uses an ATAPI CD-ROM that does not > require a CD to be present when probed. > > dmesg: > cd0 at aha0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 > cd0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA 3115> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device > cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers > cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present > It's normal... there's no CD in the drive - so the drive is not ready... It's not a boot error - it's just letting you know that the SCSI system can't determine the size of the CD you _don't_ have in the drive :-) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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