Re: cdrom problem

[Nick Holland <nhollan@home.com>]

Um...  Sounds like it means exactly what it says -- read problems.  The
CD-ROM drive is probably dirty if it is original to the P133.  If the CD
is a recordable (CD-R), keep in mind many older drives have trouble
reading them.  

Teac had several NON-ATAPI drives which had 40 pin interfaces, but if
you plugged them into a IDE controller, you shut down the bus (if not
the CPU).  I don't think OpenBSD would detect it durring boot.  And,
they had FOUR drive select positions, not "Master/Slave", so I think it
is safe bet you have an IDE drive.

Try another CD, try blowing some clean air through the drive, try
changing the drive.  I had some problem recently with a bad secondary
IDE bus, you might even try slaving the drive with the HD (this is NOT
an ideal configuration, BTW, but good for testing)


And what is wrong with a P133?  I've got a couple OpenBSD machines that
work quite well I'd gladly trade for your P133 (one is a P66, another is
a 486/66). 8-)

Nick.


Colin A DeCastro wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I recently installed openbsd 2.6 on a dell xps 133 (yeah thats right a P 133).
> My CDROM is a TEAC  CD-56E, it is set to master on the secondary ide controller.
> As far as I can
> tell it is a standard ATAPI device (if I am wrong, please no flames)
> Everytime I try to moun the drive, i get input out errors. I know BSD detects
> the drive because
> it says so during the boot sequence.
> 
> If anyone experienced something similiar or know of a possible fix, please let
> me know.
> 
> Thxs