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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!online.no!newshub.alcatel.no!usenet From: Arve Ronning <Arve.Ronning@alcatel.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with CDROM? Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 14:32:03 +0100 Organization: Alcanet International Scandinavia Lines: 43 Message-ID: <32566353.2781E494@alcatel.no> References: <52rlee$ipt@nbdchc4.bnr.ca> <52tni5$6s@nbdchc4.bnr.ca> Reply-To: arver@sn.no, Arve.Ronning@alcatel.no NNTP-Posting-Host: stku50.alcatel.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) CC: lihong_yao@nt.com, arver@sn.no, Arve.Ronning@alcatel.no lihong wrote: > > In article <52rlee$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 Your problem is obviously that the CDROM isn't recognised by the probe during boot. Once you get it recognised, you may still have problems mounting it. Presuming you have installed 2.1.0-RELEASE or 2.1.5-RELEASE, you should try boot.flp from 2.2-960801-SNAP (which has a better probe). If this recognises your CDROM it would be possible to patch your source and remake the kernel to solve at least this part of your problem. If you are able to make & install a new kernel, you could also try pub/FreeBSD/incoming/atapi_960716.tgz from ftp.cdrom.com. If any of this gets your CDROM recognised, it's time to try a mount. If the mount fails, I may have another patch you could try. As you see, most of this depends on your ability to make & install a new kernel and also on which version FreeBSD you are running. I'm currently trying to improve the ATAPI support a little until 2.2R gets released. So I'm very interested in your results. Please answer me directly via email, I don't visit this newsgroup very often. -Arve