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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!news From: Andrew Atrens <atrens@bnr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with CDROM? Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 21:51:26 +0000 Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3252E3DE.41C67EA6@nortel.ca> References: <52rlee$ipt@nbdchc4.bnr.ca> <52tni5$6s@nbdchc4.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: acart62g.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386) Hi lihong, you wrote: > > In article <52rlee$ipt@nbdchc4.bnr.ca>, lihong_yao@nt.comP says... > > > >Has anyone have any insight as to why my CDROM is not recognized by the OS? > >I am using a SAMSUNG 4x CDROM and it is configured as slave on the primary > >IDE controller. When the machine is booted wdc0 is found OK and the system > >boots normally. I have ran out of ideas for the moment. > > > >Thank you for any assistance in this perplexing problem. > >lihong_yao@nt.com > > > I forgot to mention that a hard drive is connected as master on the primary > IDE controller and the CDROM is set as slave. When rebooting wcd0 is not > found. When I try to mount the CDROM(mount_cd9660) the message is wcd0 is not > configed. Niether the generic or the custom installation configurations would > recognize wcd0 as the CDROM. > > lihong_yao@nt.com Remember to change your kernel configuration so that wd1 is disabled, otherwise it will conflict with the ATAPI wcd0 driver.. .. controller isa0 controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 #disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 device wcd0 .. Hope this helps, Andrew.