Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:13:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "m. w." <m_wall@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: plextor SCSI CDROM? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526200957.13318R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980524013311.19439.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 23 May 1998, m. w. wrote: > I was installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 after moving some partitions around > on my drive today, and was apalled to find that when I tried to select > which media to install from BSD would not read from the cd drive. It > gives me a message saying that there is no CDROM drive found. I have a > Gateway 2000 Pentium II machine with an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI controller > and a Plextor 12x SCSI CDROM. Shouldn't BSD recognize any SCSI drives > running off of a supported SCSI controller? I looked in the "hardware > supported" list of the installation notes, and Plextor isn't listed > under SCSI devices, but I just wanted to make sure... Any help you could > give me would be greatly appreciated. Hit scroll-lock at the main menu, scroll up to the ahc probe, and make sure your CD is found. If it isn't, check your termination and cabling. > Also, all of my previous OSes like Windoze 95 (gag) and NT 4.0 have > seen my trusty Seagate 9.1 gig drive as being an 8676 Mbyte drive > instead of 9.1 gigs like it's supposed to be. (So does FreeBSD on > bootup!) Even BSD's Fdisk sees it as that. The geometry cannot be > changed from the CMOS setup since it's not IDE, and I can't change it in > the Adaptec bios either. This is probably a misunderstanding about the size of the drive. Note that 9.1gig is in decimal and computers measure bytes in binary, 1,000,000 decimal bytes == 1,048,576 real bytes. 8676MB sounds about right. This is intentional marketing foolry by the drive manufacturers :-( > Like I said, any help or advice or whatever you could give me would > be great. I'd be bummed if I had to stick with Win NT, cuz I kinda > wanted both NT _and_ BSD on my machine. Oh, would it make a difference > if I booted from the floppy instead of the CDROM to install? No. I guess that your CD is misterminated. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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