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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!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: What's wrong with this ATAPI setup? Date: 31 Mar 1997 21:38:04 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5hpvus$ieh$1@Venus.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38166 After doing several SCSI installations with no problem, I've decided to do an EIDE/ATAPI installation from the 2.1.7 CD-ROM. It's a low-traffic machine (or so it's been planned) so not having SCSI shouldn't be much of an impediment. Anyway, I made a boot floppy and booted off of it, but the ATAPI CD-ROM drive isn't detected. An EIDE drive is on wd0 and the CD-ROM drive is on wd1, but wcd never gets seen. The CD-ROM drive works fine under MS-DOS. I've tried setting it to both master and slave. The drive is an NEC 273, apparently. That's what it says during bootup. 1. Should this CD-ROM drive be detected after wd1 is detected? 2. If it should, but it isn't, can I do anything to help? 3. Is this CD-ROM drive just ornery as far as FreeBSD is concerned? 4. Am I missing someting obvious, like wcd not being in the generic kernel? -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.