cdrom not detected in 5.2.1-RELEASE

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Tue Mar 30 07:22:12 PST 2004


Rob B <robbyrnes at fastmail.com.au> writes:
> Finally got my PC64 up to 5.2.1-RELEASE, but the ATA cdrom doesn't
> want to work.  The chipset and ata ports are recognised by the kernel
> at boot time: [...]
> but there is nothing in /dev, and the drive is known good.

Perhaps the CD-ROM drive is jumpered as "slave" instead of "master" or
"cable select", or it is jumpered as "master" or "cable select" but
hooked up to the wrong end of the ATA cable?

DES
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