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

From: Per von Zweigbergk (pvz_at_e.kth.se)
Date: 06/09/03

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    Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:20:03 +0200
To: current@freebsd.org

    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.
    - Floppy drive. :-)

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