DVD/CD-RW not recognized (was: Re:)

[Fierman]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:03, Volker Kindermann wrote:
> > ACD0 is only the DVD , CD-RW (a Liteon 52x 24x 52x)
> > isn't found at all!! Literally from DMESG:
> > 
> > ata0-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed
> > 
> > and sometimes it doesn't find my DVD too , with the
> > message :
> > 
> > ata1-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed
> > 
> > so, I'm without CD and DVD :cry:
> > 
> > What I can do??
> 
> first, you should check if the jumpers on all (!) ATA devices are set
> correctly:
> 
> Set the masters to "master" and the DVD and CDRW to "slave" (not
> cable-select).
> 
> If that doesn't help, check the cables. Perhaps you have some spare
> cables and you can change them.
> 
> If that doesn't help, provide us with your complete dmesg.
>  -volker
> ___

this problem sounds like the exact one as i am having, (see my mail to
this list:

                          Subject: 
ATA identify retries exceeded
(still!)
                             Date: 
24 Jul 2003 23:59:57 +0000


jumpersettings are all ok, no possible signs of hardware itself being
faulty.

dmesg :

Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Wed Jul  9 15:27:44 CEST 2003
    root at deeveedeedoos.puscii:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kernel100703
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Intel Celeron (1002.28-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x68a  Stepping = 10
 
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 133169152 (130048K bytes)
config> di bt0
config> di aic0
config> di aha0
config> di adv0
config> q
avail memory = 123887616 (120984K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc058f000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc058f09c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 4 entries at 0xc00fdf30
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82810E (i810E GMCH) Host To Hub bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82810E (i810E GMCH) SVGA controller> mem
0xd6000000-0xd607ffff,0xd0000000-0xd3ffffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci0
pcib1: <Intel 82801AA (ICH) Hub to PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
0xd5000000-0xd5000fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci1
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:09:84:d3:2c
miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcm0: <CMedia CMI8738> port 0xc400-0xc4ff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci1
pci1: <unknown card> (vendor=0x13f6, dev=0x0211) at 5.1 irq 3
isab0: <Intel 82801AA (ICH) PCI to LPC bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH ATA66 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 31.1
on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82801AA (ICH) USB controller> port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 4 at
device 31.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82801AA (ICH) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc9fff,0xcc000-0xcffff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded
ad0: 38172MB <MAXTOR 6L040J2> [77557/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a



thnx in advance, 
fierman