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From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE CDRom help
Date: 8 Jan 1996 17:30:52 -0000
Organization: University of Strathclyde
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In article <4ci43n$8c5@news2.realtime.net>, Dave Brown <dhbrown@bga.com> wrote:
>
>Anyhow, I compiled the kernel with ATAPI CDRom support.  Now, when I boot 
>the kernel, you'd never know it.  There's no probe of the wcd0 device. 

Have you tried making the kernel config file look something like this?

--------cut here-----------

controller  wdc0  at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk     wd0   at wdc0 drive 0
#disk    wd1   at wdc0 drive 1

controller  wdc1  at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
#disk    wd2   at wdc1 drive 0
#disk    wd3   at wdc1 drive 1

options         ATAPI   #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
device          wcd0    #IDE CD-ROM

--------cut here-----------

I think it is essential to comment out the "equivalent" IDE hard disk (wd2)
top get the probe going. BTW, you apparently need to make you IDE CDROM a
master device, just for the record ;)

Neil