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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:03:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        purna@cs.shizuoka.ac.jp
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help installing IDE CD-ROM driver
Message-ID:  <199508240804.KAA17371@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <9508240309.AA01210@jaguar.cs.shizuoka.ac.jp> from "purna@cs.shizuoka.ac.jp" at Aug 24, 95 12:08:43 pm

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> Hi, there!
> 
> I'm new at this mailing list. I'm sorry if this question is a FAQ. I just
> tried installing IDE CD-ROM driver (I got from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/
> FreeBSD/incoming/wcd11.tgz) into FreeBSD 2.0.5ALPHA but with no success. 
> From the "dmesg", see below, I could see that at least the kernel recognized
> the CD-ROM drive. But, it showed that the controller (atapi1.0) were not
> ready so that I could not access the drive. 
> 
>  ==>   wdc1: unit 0 (atapi) : <CD-ROM CDR-C3 G>, removable, intr
>  ==>   atapi1.0: controller not ready

I get the same report on my systems (both 1.1 and 2.0.5) with a
Sony CDU55 unit mounted as slave on the primary IDE.  Nevertheless,
I can mount wcd1a just fine. The only thing that does not work is
the audio-cd support.

> By the way, the following are about my system:
> 
>        - Gateway P5-120XL with:
>                - WD31600 HD set as a master in the primary IDE controller
>                - WD31200 HD set as a slave in the primary IDE controller
>                - Sanyo 3-Disk CD-ROM (3-CD Changer) drive set as a master
>                     in the secondary IDE controller

If you still have problems you can try to switch the WD31200 and
the cdrom.

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522              http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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