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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:36:20 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Donny Lee <donny@ms1.hinet.net>
Cc:        Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get an IDE CD-ROM work?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961020173430.12781C-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <199610201433.WAA02367@ms1.hinet.net>

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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Donny Lee wrote:

> -=*> Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> wrote:
> >> > >   I have a Philips ATAPI IDE 8x CD-ROM, which works fine under
> >> > Must be a misconfiguration because we have seen the Philips 8X IDE/ATAPI
> >> > CDROM work on FreeBSD 2.1.5 without any problems... 
> >>    Ummm... what configuration I should go through?  I found 
> >>    no CD-ROM related statement in my /etc/fstab file, what
> >>    mount statement I should add in?
> > Is the device recognized at boot??
> 
>   No, only the IDE port is detected.
> 
>   The ATAPI IDE CDROM is the only device connected to my primary IDE
>   port, as slave, I have no other IDE devices. I checked /dev, making
>   sure there are a wcd0 and a rwcd0c there.

I guess it won't work this way. Most of the time FreeBSD wants ATAPI 
CDROM's to be the slave of *something* (read as: a hard disk). If you 
don't have an IDE disk on your system there are two options:

1. Get one (it can be any old scrap metal that speaks IDE).
2. Use a SCSI CDROM (I assume that you're using SCSI for your hard disks 
if you don't have EIDE disks).

> 
>   I also had a try of mount, and a msg 'device not configured' returned.
> 
>  // Donny
> 

Nadav



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