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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!news From: mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE-contr. on a ASUS P/I-XP6NP5. FreeBSD can't detect. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:49:48 GMT Organization: This house? Are you kidding? Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5cgcks$9j5@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <5c9vv3$72m@vidar.diku.dk> <5cdrc2$fsv$1@news1.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: man-as9s55.erols.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34547 gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) wrote: >It looks like the only IDE device you have is the CD-ROM. My >experience is that (2.1 at least) will not report the controller >until it finds a device on it. Therefore a failure to detect the >CD, which is likely, would cause the perfectly good controller to >dissappear as well. Try sticking a hard disk on it and see what >happens. >I spent hours tinkering with my spiffy new four-drive IDE controller >trying to figure out why FreeBSD couldn't see the second half. >Eventually I stuck a drive on it and ta-da, there it was. Take >the drive away and the controller goes away too. I haven't snooped >through the sources to see why though. It's because the 2.1.x atapi.c doesn't probe for ATAPI devices the right way. Get atapi-071696.tgz (or similar) from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming; it has a non-bogus atapi.c in it. Lee C.