From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 9:39:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054F214EFC for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2053.bossig.com [208.26.242.53]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA27729; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <379F318F.B4FFE1DF@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:36:31 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bogdan Petculescu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bogdan@mail.seismo.nrcan.gc.ca Subject: Re: ATAPI IDE problem References: <199907281612.MAA00552@saw06.seismo.nrcan.gc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bogdan Petculescu wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I try for the first time to install FreeBSD 3.2 from the Walnut Creek > CD-ROM on a Pentium II/350MHz machine, and after booting the install > kernel and setting up partitions, I get the message > > No CD-ROM devices found ! ... > > In "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey, at page 100, it is written > that I might use an ATAPI drive that does not fit the specification. > > This is what I have about the (indeed ATAPI IDE) CD-ROM: > > 1) The technical leaflet reads: > E-IDE, conforms to SFF8020 v1.2 > 2) The Award BIOS says: > ATAPI CDROM on IDE Secondary Slave, Mode 4 > 3) Windows 98 (was previously on the machine) said about it: > E-IDE CDROM 36X/AKW It seems to prefer a CDROM that is a master. There has been a lot of discussion of it not working when you have a slave and no secondary master. My CDROM is the secondary master. I have a WD 3.1GB drive as the secondary slave device. Kent > > I tried to use UserConfig, but the result is the same, and there is > no wcd device in any list thereof. > > Could you please help me ? > > Thank you, > > Bogdan Petculescu > bogdan@seismo.nrcan.gc.ca > (613) 992-3753 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message