CD device no longer works in new FreeBSD releases?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 17 March 2006 22:47, disposable42-fm at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 05:10, disposable42-fm at yahoo.com wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I've been
> > trying
> > > to get FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE working on a laptop, a Compaq Armada V300.
> > > I boot the installation off the CD drive, go through the setup process
> > > fine, but when I have to choose the installation method, it reports `No
> > CD
> > > devices found!'. Disabling ACPI didn't do anything, either.
> > > I remembered I had an old FreeBSD 4.10 disk lying around, so I gave
> > that a
> > > go as a last resort, and lo and behold, it worked- it installed
> > everything
> > > off the first CD. Haven't tried 5.x, I assume the latest release would
> > > support the most hardware.
> > > 
> > > Were some drivers removed after 4.x, or isn't the installer detecting
> > the
> > > CDROM? Is there any way to fix this, or should I stick to 4.x (or, eek,
> > > Linux)? It's a `CRN-8241B' if that helps, but anything that turns up on
> > > Google seems to be about 4.x, and works fine.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance, but apologies if I've posted to the wrong place.
> > 
> > Would you be able to capture the dmesg from the 6.0 kernel using a
> > serial console or some other means?  Also, would you be able to provide
> > a dmesg from the 4.x kernel?
> Okay, sorry for the late reply, had to source a DB9 cable (had everything
> /but/). I found it interesting that while 4.10 finds my pccard, it doesn't
> find the Xircom ethernet card, but 6.0-R does (as well as ACPI support).
> 
> Anyway, in the 4.10 output, you can see on line 87-88 it finds ad0 & acd0,
> but on 6.0 it only finds ad0.

I don't see anything obvious.  Perhaps try asking sos@ as he maintains the
ATA drivers?

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