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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.best.com!idiom.com!not-for-mail From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: What's wrong with this ATAPI setup? Date: 1 Apr 1997 15:55:01 -0800 Organization: JSI Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5hs78l$cdb@idiom.com> References: <5hpvus$ieh$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5hrc5h$4km@lace.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: idiom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38266 > >After doing several SCSI installations with no problem, I've decided > >to do an EIDE/ATAPI installation from the 2.1.7 CD-ROM. It's a > >low-traffic machine (or so it's been planned) so not having SCSI > >shouldn't be much of an impediment. > >Anyway, I made a boot floppy and booted off of it, but the ATAPI > >CD-ROM drive isn't detected. An EIDE drive is on wd0 and the CD-ROM > >drive is on wd1, but wcd never gets seen. The CD-ROM drive works fine > >under MS-DOS. I've tried setting it to both master and slave. The > >drive is an NEC 273, apparently. That's what it says during bootup. > > I don't have a solution, but I've run into this problem twice. The > 2.1.x documentation says that you need to use a different file to > create the boot disk (or run a different .exe if you are installing > from MS-DOS) if you are using an ATAPI CD-ROM. However, those files > do not seem to exist on my 2.1.5 CD-ROM. There's no seperate ATAPI boot floppy on either 2.1.7 or 2.2.1, either. After recompiling the kernel, what should our fstab entry be? Is this correct? /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9960 ro 0 0 ?