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#! rnews 1674 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM through SB 16 IDE controller Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:46:17 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <324D7279.713A@www.play-hookey.com> References: <52ji5c$8jh@eirene.wingnet.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) James Daresta wrote: > > I was wondering if it is possible to mount my IDE CD-ROM through the SB 16 IDE > controller. For some reason my Creative CD-ROM does not work properly when I > have it attached to my Pentium motherboard IDE controller. Unfortuanately now > that I moved it back to the SB 16 controller FreeBSD cannot detect it. If > anyone knows how I can get it to work please let me know. Just as a note I am > still learning FreeBSD and in fact UNIX for that matter so if something simple > and I missed it please show mercy. We have had this kind of problem where I work. We found that no matter what we did in the BIOS setup, we couldn't really turn the motherboard's secondary IDE port off. If yours is the same, you've got a conflict and can't use the port on the SB card. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |