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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!newshost.convex.com!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!b04d44!not-for-mail From: exujbm@exu.ericsson.se (Ben Madison) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for toshiba CD rom? Date: 30 Sep 1996 20:15:32 GMT Organization: Ericsson North America Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <52p9p4$6q8@cnn.exu.ericsson.se> References: <843775992.12909.0@tirnanog.demon.co.uk> <52p17a$13k@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: b04d44.exu.ericsson.se X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: > Ian J Greely (IanG@tirnanog.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > > > I couldn't get the CD Rom recognised by the install prog so I > > installed from a Dos partition expecting to enable the atapi support > > once I was up and running. > > > > Now I've compiled a Kernel with the support enabled but it doesn't > > seem to be picking up my CD ROm... a Toshiba 8X IDE. > > Have you got your CDROM as a slave on your secondary controller ? I ran into some interesting stuff while switching from IDE to SCSI, this weekend. I couldn't find a SCSI CD-ROM drive to use, so I installed from an IDE CD-ROM. My initial configuration had an IDE drive as master, and an IDE CD-ROM drive as slave, hanging off of the primary IDE controller (wdc0). I added the SCSI controller and drive without a hitch, did the install (ran into a weird problem with sysinstall filling up my process table with a bunch of zombie tar processes while installing packages), then removed the IDE drive, reset the system BIOS to indicate no drive, and set the CD-ROM drive as master on wdc0. On reboot, the new system found wdc0 just fine, but no CD-ROM drive. After double-checking the setup, I put everything back the way it had been and tried again. Everything came up fine. After playing with several configurations and reading through the handbook, I found that I could hang the CD-ROM drive, as master, from the secondary IDE controller (wdc1). Everything works fine, now. Any idea why the CD-ROM drive has to be on the secondary IDE bus when there's no IDE hard drive present? -- Ben Madison Ericsson Inc. exujbm@exu.ericsson.se Richardson, TX USA Trade my DigiBoard PC/4 for your >= 4x SCSI CD-ROM...? Email!