5.0/5.1: Installer does not find CD-ROM drive - even though it's booted off it

[Vitaly Markitantov]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm having difficulty with the ISO image of FreeBSD 5.1. The same 
> problem also appeared in 5.0, but since 5.1 had come out, I decided to 
> try that before reporting this bug.
> 
> When booting the installer off the CD-ROM and doing a Standard install, 
> you first get to the stage of partitioning a hard drive.
> 
> Then you get to the stage where distributions are chosen.
> 
> After that, it wants you to choose install media. I choose CD/DVD, and 
> suddenly it says:
> 
> "No CD/DVD devices found!"
> 
> This is strange, since I clearly have been able to boot from it, and 
> the boot loader seems to find it.
> 
> On a whim, I also tried to choose "Floppy" for the install, but that 
> didn't work either:
> 
> "No floppy devices found!"
> 
> This is more than strange. It's truly bizarre.
> 
> In the boot loader it says:
> 
> BIOS CD is cd0
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> 
> And just before it dumps into /stand/sysinstall, I get:
> 
> ata1-master: timeout waiting for interrupt
> ata1-master: ATAPI identify failed
> 
> The system is new, and has had no OS installed on it previously. I have 
> upgraded the BIOS to the latest version.
> 
> Specifications:
> 
> - Microstar 865PE Neo2 LS mother board
> - 3 x Intel 10/100 Desktop Adapter S cards. (Supported by the fxp 
> driver)
> - Cheap Geforce 4 MX based AGP graphics card
> - Western Digital Special Edition 120 GB hard drive with 8 MB disk 
> cache connected using the onboard ATA100 functionality. Master on the 
> first IDE bus.
> - Samsung CD-ROM drive connected to the second IDE bus as Master. Only 
> does ATA33 with the cables I use.

 Looks like Samsung 52X CD-ROM is broken for FreeBSD, i have this problem
 with this drive, when i replace it to Asus 52X CD-ROM, all works fine.


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 Vitaly Markitantov         mailto: vm at dics.com.ua