From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 0: 0:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grozav.unibuc.ro (lsg-gw.pub.ro [192.129.3.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F333537B408 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from x68@home.ro) Received: from ics.grozav.unibuc.ro (Ics.grozav.unibuc.ro [192.168.1.4]) by grozav.unibuc.ro (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with SMTP id KAA05901; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:01:29 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: anton chirita To: Manas Bhatt Subject: Re: mounting atapi cdrom Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:01:23 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010612064504.19967.qmail@web10707.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010612064504.19967.qmail@web10707.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061210012300.01254@ics.grozav.unibuc.ro> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have both "options CD9660" and the device lines for atapi cdrom in the config file i also tried recompiling the kernel with no result regards, anton On Tuesday 12 June 2001 09:45 am, you wrote: > just check your kernel conf file. it present at > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC ( check if you have > cdrom added there ,CD9660 filesystem is required for > mounting the cdrom). if not, then the kernel doesn't > support mounting of cdrom. > if some expert can comment of this ( i am still a > newbie). > thanks > manas > > --- anton chirita wrote: > > i've opened the case and checked the cables and > > jumpers > > everything seemed ok to me > > but i've mentioned before my poor hardware knowledge > > now i simply don't know what to do > > i'll just have to copy everything from the cdrom > > onto a dos or ext2 partition > > the truth is that i'm havins doubts about using > > freebsd > > > > regards, > > anton > > > > On Monday 11 June 2001 01:35 pm, you wrote: > > > anton chirita schrieb: > > > > please excuse the lack of information and thank > > > > you for the support > > > > > > i have limited hardware knowledge, but i think > > > > that my cdrom is atapi > > > > > > compatible and is the primary slave (device > > > > /dev/hdb in linux) > > > > > > the hard-drive is the primary master (device > > > > /dev/hda for linux) > > > > > > here are some lines from dmesg: > > > > > > > > ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded > > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > Seems this CD-ROM has problems. Don't tell us "but > > > > it works with > > > > > Windumbs" -- it pretends to work. It does not work > > > > properly. Check ATA > > > > > cables and master- / slave-jumpers on both hard > > > > disk and CD-ROM. > > > > > HTH > > > -Christoph Sold > > > > > > > ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 > > > > compliant cable > > > > > > ad0: 8223MB [16708/16/63] at > > > > ata0-master UDMA33 > > > > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > > > > > > i'm trying also to disable dma for the > > > > hard-drive > > > > > > sysctl hw.atamodes says "dma,---,---,---," > > > > i don't know what value to assign to disable dma > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > anton > > > > > > > > On Monday 11 June 2001 09:38 am, you wrote: > > > > > anton chirita schrieb: > > > > > > hello > > > > > > i have a 40x atapi cdrom > > > > > > i burned a 4.3-install.iso and booted from > > > > it > > > > > > > > when i choosed cdrom as instalation media i > > > > got the error "no cdrom > > > > > > > > device" after that i installed from a dos > > > > drive > > > > > > > > i recompiled the kernel with a "device > > > > atapicd" line in the conf file > > > > > > > > but i still can't make the device and mount > > > > the cdrom drive > > > > > > > > this is the first time i try freebsd > > > > > > above that my hard-drive led stands on all > > > > the time > > > > > > > > how can i solve this problems? > > > > > > > > > > Since you do not include any information, this > > > > is only > > > > > > > speculation:either you got a very old CD-ROM > > > > drive, which is not > > > > > > > ATAPI-compatible, or your drive is configured > > > > as slave and connected to > > > > > > > an ATA port without a master drive. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > > > > of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > > the message > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message