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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news.rns.net!news.van.rns.net!news.tvinet.com!amd40.wecs.org!amd40.wecs.org!duane From: duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Another IDE CDROM report. Date: 5 Dec 1996 05:34:48 GMT Organization: A FreeBSD box. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <585mto$j80@amd40.wecs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial5.tvinet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] In the quest for testing of the new 2.1.6-Release and IDE CDROM drives, I put the 2.1.6 boot.fly into our Windoze box which is a "no-name-brand" motherboard with a real Pentium 100 mHz CPU. The chipset is, as far as I can tell from the 3-page manual is: INTEL 82437FX SYSTEM CONTROLLER INTEL 82371FB PCI ISA IDE XCELLERATOR (from the manual :-) ) INTEL 82438FX PENTIUM DATA PATH UNIT S3Trio64 PCI video, 256K Pipline Burst SRAM cache, with 32 MB 'normal' system memory. Sound Blaster16, CNet NE2000 clone and a Seagate 1.2GB EIDE harddisk. The CDROM drive is an NEC 4x, don't have the model number, its probably to cheap to have one :-) Gawd I gotta stop buying this cheap crap! The BIOS reports the CD-DRIVE as the slave on the second controller, Mode 3. FreeBSD hangs for a short time on the probe but does not find it. The configure install options in the installer says "No CD-ROMS found!". I am surprised to see the CDROM connected as the slave, but this machine was bought as a unit and this is the first time I've paid any attention to what it is make out of. It has basically served as my son's Doom box, but might work if the CDROM was wired as the master device, which is the way I would have done it. I have been toying with the idea of using it to volunteer testing of the 2.2 release installer. Again, I can supply further info if necessary, and could probably be talked into voiding the warranty and hacking into it. Hope this helps, -- Duane Eddingfield My real e-mail address is: duane@tvinet.com Powered by FreeBSD Real UNIX for free!