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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2000 22:50:41 +1000 (EST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   forcing detection of CDROM
Message-ID:  <20000905125041.2133.qmail@web5104.mail.yahoo.com>

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I've got an atapi DVD-ROM drive in my machine that is
usable quite fine under Windows and Windows NT.  It is
on a seperate IDE channel and is jumpered as a master.
Under FreeBSD 4.1 the IDE controller is detected OK
but I get a message saying something like:

'ata2-master - idendify retries exceeded'

I tried 'fooling' the freebsd into using it by
installing with a regular cdrom, then shut the system
down and swapped it for the DVD-ROM and booted up
again.
This didn't work.

Can I somehow 'tell' FreeBSD that that there is a
CDROM device there and to use it even though it's not
detected?

Thanks.


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