atapicam issues

[Adam Vande More]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:

> I have 2 systems running 8.0 installed from the same CD.  One of them shows
> 2 PASS devices as expected and camcontrol devlist shows the appropriate
> devices.  They work as expected.
>
> The other does not show any PASS devices and camcontrol devlist shows
> nothing.  Doing a kldload atapicam installs the PASS devices and then
> camcontrol works properly.  Why would that system require atapicam to be
> manually added?  That module was not loaded on the working system.  I
> installed it there first by accident but it had no detrimental effect.
>
> I don't find any reference to atapi or atapicam in the various rc
> files._______________________________________________
>

atapicam is loaded from /boot/loader.conf as most hardware kernel mods are.
AFAIK, something would have needed to changed on your working system the
behavior you report.  Perhaps you followed the handbook's instructions about
cd burning long ago and forgot you edited the config?


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
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Adam Vande More