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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!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: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Date: 8 Dec 1996 03:50:42 GMT Organization: A FreeBSD box. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <58ddui$qao@amd40.wecs.org> References: <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org> <nLhWoCA89UpyIwFp@vambo.demon.co.uk> <E1wy1M.3pC@yedi.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial17.tvinet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Wilko Bulte (wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) wrote: : Glenn Davis <glenn@vambo.demon.co.uk> writes: : >> Toshiba XM-5302TA ATAPI CDROM drive at wdc1 as the MASTER device. : >> The kernel probe finds wdc0 and its drive but times out on : >>wdc1 with "wdc1 not found at 0x170f". : >> : >I could be wrong bit I'm having the same problems with WC 2.1.5 after : >reviwing postings in this and anothe newsgroup from others with the same : >problem & digging around in a few docs 'n' stuff I thing the CD rom : in general: IDE CDROM support is a bit rough around the edges : (to put it politely) for FreeBSD. There's a strong move to fix this : right now. The fact that IDE CDROMs come in very different (read: buggy) : incarnations and in addition the fact that most FreeBSDers stay away : from IDE CDroms like the plague only complicates things. I totally agree!! My FreeBSD system is going to be totally SCSI very soon, I'm still booting from an EIDE drive. Next payday I'll have enough money to replace it with a SCSI :-] What I am describing here are my 'other' two machines :-) I am posting in response to Jordans call for people to test IDE CDROMs for the release of 2.1.6. The above mentioned hardware is what I use to run Linux 2.0.0. I just used it to test the 2.1.6 boot.flp and am reporting the results. -- Duane Eddingfield My real e-mail address is: duane@tvinet.com Powered by FreeBSD Real UNIX for free!