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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.tamu.edu!news.utdallas.edu!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nott!statcan.ca!jeays From: jeays@statcan.ca (Mike Jeays) Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Message-ID: <E26GuD.Ezx@statcan.ca> Organization: Statistics Canada X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org> <nLhWoCA89UpyIwFp@vambo.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 03:11:01 GMT Lines: 30 I just upgraded my system to a Pentium 120, and added a CD-ROM, a Panasonic CR-583 8x unit (actually made by Matsushita, I think). For the first try, it was on the second IDE connector on the motherboard,as I have two hard disks on the first. It works properly under Win95 (don't you just *hate* it when something works on Win95 and won't on FreeBSD!?) As others have reported, it times out while trying to detect it. I also tried it by putting my Windows disk and the CD-ROM on the first IDE port, and putting the FreeBSD disk by itself on the second port, resetting the master/slave connectors correctly. It then pauses for about a minute after detecting the CD-ROM in the Award Bios, and then boots partway into FreeBSD, having successfully identified both hard disks and the Cd-ROM. It says it is trying to boot from wd(1,a), and panics. Is there some other magic incantation I could use for the boot command? I guessed at wd(2,a), but that worked very badly indeed! It still all works with Win95 in this configuration, including the CD-ROM. I am still running FreeBSD 2.1.0 - a main reason to get the CD-ROM was to be able to upgrade easily. Am I likely to have any more luck with 2.1.5 or 2.1.6, or should I wait for 2.2 until I buy the Walnut Creek CD? I do at least still have a running system. Any help will be much appreciated!