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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:08:17 -0500
From:      Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, paul <blackout@ISLC.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dell inspiron 8000 freebsd -stable
Message-ID:  <20020327050817.0611EBB39@i8k.babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <1017202321.13285.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
References:  <004901c1d53f$552ca650$1fa531d8@saturated> <1017202321.13285.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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On Tuesday 26 March 2002 11:11 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
| On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:57, paul wrote:
| >    DVD-ROM drive on inspiron 8000 doesn't work in freebsd -stable. I
| > searched the mailing lists and found a work around to do an
| > autoboot_delay="60" which after doing my dvdrom drive worked fine in
| > FreeBSD 4.5 -release, however does not work in -stable.
| > I get a..........acd0c:Device not configured. Any help would be greatly
| > appreciated
|
| Recent commits to the ATA code have broken CDROM support..

Try rebuilding ata devices.  I have an i8000 and I have the ATA updates (in 
fact, I tested it before it was even committed to stable).

|
| Not sure if it has just been fixed yet.
|
| I'm in the same boat (well, I have the same laptop with a CD-ROM drive)
|
| ---
| Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
| for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
| "The nice thing about standards is that there
| are so many of them to choose from."
|   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
|
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