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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!torn!nott!statcan.ca!jeays From: jeays@statcan.ca (Mike Jeays) Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems Message-ID: <E7xuF0.MJ@statcan.ca> Organization: Statistics Canada X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <5hn1o1$b4b@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br> <5ho851$koc@idiom.com> <5horcu$e40@chronicle.concentric.net> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 02:47:23 GMT Lines: 46 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38177 Rick Slater (Slater@cris.com) wrote: : Michael Craft (jsi@idiom.com) wrote: : : : I've got the same problem here; for some reason the IDE cdrom : : support was removed from the 2.1.7 and 2.2 distributions. : : Are you sure about that? In the versions I've used, you had to rebuild : the kernel, but once that was done, you had full IDE cdrom support. : I'm going to order 2.2.x just as soon as Walnut Creek has it available : on cdrom, and I'd sure hate to find out that atapi support is missing. : Regards, : Rick Slater : -- : I am Pentium of Borg. : Division is futile. : You will be approximated. I have been using an ATAPI CD-ROM quite successfully on both 2.1.5 and 2.2-BETA, and am confident it works on the 2.2-RELEASE - I am waiting for the Walnut Creek CRDOM to become available. In 2.1.5, the kernel supplied on the boot floppy won't find the CDROM at boot time in some circumstances, because the probe conflicts with the IDE probe. I fixed it in 2.1.5 with a kernel configuration file that said controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr # disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 # disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM (I have two IDE disks on the first controller, and the CDROM on the second.) In 2.2-BETA, the supplied kernel detects the CDROM correctly, but it takes a while to do so; mayber 30 to 60 seconds.