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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 2.1 Support EDI CDROM? Date: 15 Jan 1996 10:48:11 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4ddbdb$725@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4d9dc8$cl9@mercury.IntNet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Jeff Tomich <jtomich@IntNet.net> wrote: >Apparently FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't see my EDI CDROM. Does it support it? What >should I do? Assuming you mean IDE, you probably just have to reconfigure your kernel. FreeBSD seems kind of picky about this. At the least, you've got to find the lines that look like this: #options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus #device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM in your configuration file, and remove the '#'s in column 1 to enable IDE CD-ROM support. But that may not be all. If your configuration is based on the GENERIC one in the kernel sources, you'll also have the following: 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 To get it to work for me, I've got to comment out or remove the last two lines. My configuration is two IDE disks on controller 0, and the CD-ROM as a master on controller 1. Is there any fundamental reason for IDE devices to not be more dynamically configurable, like SCSI devices, or is it just that IDE support for non-disks is newer in FreeBSD, so it is just not as mature as the SCSI support? --Tim Smith