LITE-ON cd-rw and 5.1-p10

[jason]

What about the master slave pins on the drives, are they set right?  
Also the cable is in correctly right?  What are the bios settings?
Jason



Stephen Cravey wrote:

>I've just cobbled together a new machine and purchased a LITE-ON
>LTR-52327S CD-RW for it. FreeBSD, however, seems unable to detect the
>drive. On boot, there is no acd device shown at all, however I do get an
>ACPI error. (dmesg will follow)
>
>I can boot from the 5.1-R install CD with no problem, however when I
>select cd/dvd as the install media, it claims that there is no dvd/cd
>drive found!?!?!. I also get a 'drive full error usually when i boot from
>CD and install from FTP as soon as the data starts writing to the hard
>drive. The fdisk and newfs stages seem to complete normally prior to
>this. I ended up installing from floppy.
>
>The seagate is the master and the lite-on is the slave on the primary bus.
>I'm using a new ata 66/100/133 cable. I plan to get a second ata cable
>this afternoon and try to put them on seperate busses, however i'm not
>sure that's the problem. Any suggestions on what I should look for or
>what might be wrong? Anything goes.
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>-Stephen
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