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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: dlacroix@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (David M. LaCroix) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Date: 18 Dec 1996 00:40:59 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 56 Message-ID: <59805b$ert@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org> <nLhWoCA89UpyIwFp@vambo.demon.co.uk> <E26GuD.Ezx@statcan.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32737 Mike Jeays (jeays@statcan.ca) wrote: : For the first try, it was on the second IDE : connector on the motherboard,as I have : two hard disks on the first. It works properly under Win95 (don't : you just *hate* it when something works on Win95 and won't on : FreeBSD!?) As others have reported, it times out while trying : to detect it. My experience with an IDE CD-rom drive... It is the ONLY ide drive in my system (ok, I got it cheap)... I installed it on the first IDE controller (as the only drive)... the manual was crap... didn't say anything about what setting (master/slave) to put it at... and sure enough, when I just hooked it up, it worked fine under DOS, but not FreeBSD... I determined that it worked NO MATTER WHAT it was set to under DOS... The short of the story is that when I put the drive by itself on the controller, it had to be jumpered as "master" to work properly on FreeBSD. (this is a Matsumi 6x drive) : I also tried it by putting my Windows disk and the CD-ROM on the : first IDE port, and putting the FreeBSD disk by itself on the : second port, resetting the master/slave connectors correctly. : It then pauses for about a minute after detecting the CD-ROM : in the Award Bios, and then boots partway into FreeBSD, having : successfully identified both hard disks and the Cd-ROM. It says : it is trying to boot from wd(1,a), and panics. Is there some other : magic incantation I could use for the boot command? I guessed : at wd(2,a), but that worked very badly indeed! : It still all works with Win95 in this configuration, including : the CD-ROM. : I am still running FreeBSD 2.1.0 - a main reason to get the : CD-ROM was to be able to upgrade easily. Am I likely to have any : more luck with 2.1.5 or 2.1.6, or should I wait for 2.2 until I : buy the Walnut Creek CD? I do at least still have a running : system. See my story above... put the CD-Rom drive on IDE controller 2 and try configuring it for master ... or leaving the jumper off... I'm convinced it will work no matter what (broken) setting you use under DOS, but it will only work under FreeBSD when you find the magic setting... :) In my case, it was "master" Seeing how your drive was recognized as wd1, it most likely will work given the right setting on the second controller. Make sure your second controller is enabled in bios and not disabled by jumpers on the motherboard or any similar thing. Good luck. -- dlacroix@cslab.vt.edu dlacroix@vt.edu