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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ide cdrom
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:45:40 GMT
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milton (Milton.Ngan@comp.vuw.ac.nz) wrote:
: Dan Dartman <uffda@dynalab.cs.montana.edu> writes:
: I have a new Diamond 8X cdrom which uses it's own EIDE controller. I
: compiled the kernel with the ATAPI options, did MAKEDEV wcd0, and
: mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom. I get a "device not configured
: message". When I boot I get the correct probe for 'wdc1 found at 0x170
: at irq 15' message, however it hangs there a long time and the cdrom
: light does not come on.
wdc1 is the second ide controller - the output of the cdrom is
something like "wdc0: unit 1 (atapi) ..."
: Are you using Serge's ATAPI driver? I am not a FreeBSD user, but I
: have been looking at the driver I found in the FreeBSD source
: tree. The driver only seems to support the audio functions. Support
: for mounting the CD-ROM was being worked on, but there were some
: technical problems that had to be solved. I don't know how far this
: driver has progressed since I got it (back in December).
i think you are at least a bit wrong - i've installed 2.1.0 on two
machines with IDE/ATAPI cdrom's and they both can mount cd just fine
(but it may be that some drives and/or master/slave first/second
controller combinations aren't working correctly)
t
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