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From: fcrary@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this ATAPI setup?
Date: 1 Apr 1997 16:12:33 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <5hpvus$ieh$1@Venus.mcs.net>, Font <font@MCS.COM> wrote:
>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.
I don't have a solution, but I've run into this problem twice. The
2.1.x documentation says that you need to use a different file to
create the boot disk (or run a different .exe if you are installing
from MS-DOS) if you are using an ATAPI CD-ROM. However, those files
do not seem to exist on my 2.1.5 CD-ROM.
Frank Crary
CU Boulder