Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:19:55 -0800 (PST) From: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only CD on IDE w/ SCSI disk? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9902012117060.29290-100000@geo.geocast.net> In-Reply-To: <19990202151729.O76680@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 20:19:59 -0800, Castor Fu wrote: > > I have a system with an ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive (Lucky Goldstar CRD-8322B), > > and a SCSI hard disk off a Diamond Fireport 40 controller. > > > > When I try booting off a FreeBSD-2.2.8 installation CD, the kernel > > doesn't detect the IDE CD-ROM unless I also hook up an IDE Disk. > > > > I've tried using the "Cable Select", "Master" and "Slave" settings > > on the drive, and they all fail. When using "Cable Select" or "Master" the IDE > > controller is detected but the drive is not. With the "Slave" setting, > > the controller is not detected at all. > > > > Should FreeBSD-2.x be able to work with just one IDE device which is a > > CD-ROM? > > It should be able to, but it's a weak area. Is it possible that your > CD-ROM should be jumpered for neither master nor slave when it's by > itself? Probably the easiest thing to do is to download the 3.0 boot > disk; you don't need to install 3.0, but it'll tell you if it finds > the CD-ROM or not. I assumed that the "Cable Select" position was equivalent to neither master nor slave. Booting with the FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE boot floppy doesn't detect the CD-ROM drive either. Is the new Atapi-CD driver likely to change things? Linux works just fine in this configuration. -castor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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