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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ide cdrom
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:45:40 GMT
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milton (Milton.Ngan@comp.vuw.ac.nz) wrote:
: Dan Dartman <uffda@dynalab.cs.montana.edu> writes:

:    I have a new Diamond 8X cdrom which uses it's own EIDE controller.  I 
:    compiled the kernel with the ATAPI options, did MAKEDEV wcd0, and 
:    mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom.  I get a "device not configured 
:    message".  When I boot I get the correct probe for 'wdc1 found at 0x170 
:    at irq 15' message, however it hangs there a long time and the cdrom 
:    light does not come on.  

wdc1 is the second ide controller - the output of the cdrom is
something like "wdc0: unit 1 (atapi) ..."

: Are you using Serge's ATAPI driver? I am not a FreeBSD user, but I
: have been looking at the driver I found in the FreeBSD source
: tree. The driver only seems to support the audio functions. Support
: for mounting the CD-ROM was being worked on, but there were some
: technical problems that had to be solved. I don't know how far this
: driver has progressed since I got it (back in December).

i think you are at least a bit wrong - i've installed 2.1.0 on two
machines with IDE/ATAPI cdrom's and they both can mount cd just fine
(but it may be that some drives and/or master/slave first/second
controller combinations aren't working correctly)

t
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