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

[Vitaly Markitantov]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:19:08PM -0500, none_NOSPAM at siu.edu wrote:
> FWIW - I have a Samsung SM-348 48x CD/DVD combo unit that works just
> fine under 5.1 (and 4.8):
> 
> acd0: CD-RW <SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B> at ata0-master PIO4

 Yes, i have 48X SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148T, and it works fine under 5.1 and 4.8
 Maybe only 52X Samsung SC-152 is broken for FreeBSD.

> 
> On 10 Jun, Vitaly Markitantov wrote:
> > 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