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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!usenet From: Tushar Patel <tpatel@austin.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for toshiba CD rom? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 15:49:02 +0000 Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 54 Message-ID: <32513D6E.167E@austin.ibm.com> References: <843775992.12909.0@tirnanog.demon.co.uk> <52p17a$13k@anorak.coverform.lan> <52p9p4$6q8@cnn.exu.ericsson.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: spur07.austin.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; AIX 2) Ben Madison wrote: > > Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > Ian J Greely (IanG@tirnanog.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > > > > > I couldn't get the CD Rom recognised by the install prog so I > > > installed from a Dos partition expecting to enable the atapi support > > > once I was up and running. > > > > > > Now I've compiled a Kernel with the support enabled but it doesn't > > > seem to be picking up my CD ROm... a Toshiba 8X IDE. > > > > Have you got your CDROM as a slave on your secondary controller ? > > I ran into some interesting stuff while switching from IDE to SCSI, this > weekend. I couldn't find a SCSI CD-ROM drive to use, so I installed from > an IDE CD-ROM. I have panasonic 2x SCSI-2 drive and at install it got recignized but could not read from the drive. Kept complaining it about the controller (SC-200) being dead. I finally gave up and tried exactly what you tried below. > > My initial configuration had an IDE drive as master, and an IDE CD-ROM > drive as slave, hanging off of the primary IDE controller (wdc0). I > added the SCSI controller and drive without a hitch, did the install > (ran into a weird problem with sysinstall filling up my process table > with a bunch of zombie tar processes while installing packages), then > removed the IDE drive, reset the system BIOS to indicate no drive, and > set the CD-ROM drive as master on wdc0. > > On reboot, the new system found wdc0 just fine, but no CD-ROM drive. > After double-checking the setup, I put everything back the way it had > been and tried again. Everything came up fine. After playing with > several configurations and reading through the handbook, I found that > I could hang the CD-ROM drive, as master, from the secondary IDE > controller (wdc1). Everything works fine, now. I am having exactly the same problem. At the boot system finds the wdc0 just fine but no CD-ROM, I have NEC 4x IDE CDROM. I have not tried putting as secondary master, I will try today. > > Any idea why the CD-ROM drive has to be on the secondary IDE bus when > there's no IDE hard drive present? > > -- > Ben Madison Ericsson Inc. > exujbm@exu.ericsson.se Richardson, TX USA > > Trade my DigiBoard PC/4 for your >= 4x SCSI CD-ROM...? Email!