Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:55:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tony Simaz <tony@michiganpizzahut.com> Cc: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only CD on IDE w/ SCSI disk? Message-ID: <19990203095550.Z1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990203082450.M1179@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 08:24:51AM %2B1030 References: <19990203082450.M1179@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021805020.7092-100000@nyx.michiganpizzahut.com> <19990202155258.R76680@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902020831001.7092-100000@nyx.michiganpizzahut.com> <19990203082450.M1179@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wednesday, 3 February 1999 at 8:24:51 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 8:35:48 -0500, Tony Simaz wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 21:19:55 -0800, Castor Fu wrote: >>>> 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? >>> >>> I believe the new driver is already there in 3.0-RELEASE. This looks >>> like bad news. >>> >>>> Linux works just fine in this configuration. >>> >>> That at least confirms that you have the jumpers set correctly. I'll >>> check who's supporting this stuff. >> >> I have this same configuration on a Toshiba Pentium Pro with a Adaptec >> 2940 onboard adapter. I'm currently running 2.2.8 on four of these beasts >> and never had a problem with installion. > > How close is the configuration? Are you also using a Lucky Goldstar > CRD-8322B on its own on the controller? On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 18:11:52 -0500, Tony Simaz wrote: > It's a Toshiba XM-5702B CD-ROM drive. It's the master on the secondary > controller. FreeBSD finds it as an atapi device on wcd1. N The issue here is the CD-ROM drive. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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