FreeBSD doesn't find my CD-RW and sometimes my DVD

[Lia Maggioni]

Venerdì, luglio 25, 2003, alle 01:45 , Greg Panula ha scritto:

I don't use cable select :( I've ever used Jumpers.

I've tried to change the position on the cable on the drives.... no way.

:( Help :(

Bye

Marcello

> Lia Maggioni wrote:
>>
>> Hi , I'm disperated
>>
>> I've recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 ,and all at the first look was ok ,
>> this was only a try in a small partition , and now I have decided to
>> install it in a bigger partition , so I've downloaded the 5.1 ISO (to
>> give it a try too) and I've tried to BURN it with "burncd" . Now, I've
>> noticed that in the DEV directory there are the devices "acd0a" and
>> "acd0c" , I've thought that acd0a was DVD and acd0c was CD-RW... but I
>> was wrong...
>>
>> 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??
>>
>
> Did you try setting the jumpers on the device(s) to slave instead of
> Cable-select?
>
> I've had mixed results with IDE devices using cable-select(cs).
>
> greg
>