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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!pleung From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Date: 5 Dec 1996 18:54:41 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5875ph$rc3@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: yeager.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pleung X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Duane Eddingfield (duane@amd40.wecs.org) wrote: : AMD K5 x586 133 mHz "tiawan-special" no-name brand motherboard : with 3 PCI, 4 ISA and 1 VLB slots. 256K SRAM cache and 32MB DRAM. : The chipset is UMC and the bios is by AMI. nice system : Adaptec 1520 SCSI adapter with 80MB Quantum, and Archive tape. I would take this one out. ;-)) It's a bit old, and may be the ROOT cause of your problems with FreeBSD. The older a piece of hardware, the great possibility it may not be supported, by old I mean more than 5 years or so. I remember I had an 80MB Quantum HD on my 386, worked great. I'm not suggesting you should use it as a "door stopper" as some people do, but take this baby out and see what happens with FreeBSD. : Maxtor 540MB EIDE harddisk at wdc0 with 32-bit mode enabled and : PIO mode 1. : Toshiba XM-5302TA ATAPI CDROM drive at wdc1 as the MASTER device. You may want to set it up as primary slave instead if it fails to be detected or simply does not work. : I entered the "Visual" mode at boot time (VERY nice touch guys :-) ) You bet! This is the one aspect of FreeBSD that impresses me the most. : Funny thing is that after I booted with the FreeBSD boot.flp, I had Since you want to have atapi support, you should try to use boot.atapi instead as your boot disk. Remember that atapi support is still only alpha/beta quality as of now, but worked just fine with my CD, just a bit slow. : there seems to be some kind of weirdnes with this motherboard, : and since I am still new to PCI motherboards, but I am reporting : it anyway in the hopes that it will be usedful. hmmm... I don't know. Make 100% certain that your motherboard is fully compatible with whatever cpu you use. If you got your motherboard at an extreme bargain price, I be supicious of its quality. You may want to check for irq conflicts, turn cache on/off (matters with some cpu/motherboard combinations). good luck, Patrick