Re: Dual cd drives

[George E Sollish <gsollish%autogear.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:22:20AM -0400, George E Sollish wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently acquired an IBM Intellistation Z Pro, now running 5.0.
> > The box has two 'cd' devices, an IBM DVDRAM drive and an IBM CD-ROM
> > drive, the problem being that only the CD-ROM is reliably found on boot,
> > although both are invariably found by the BIOS.
>
> Do you know if it's related to having a media in the drive or not ?
>
> You could try setting atadebug_mask to 0x10 and see what the kernel
> says when it doesn't find the drive.
>
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
> Manuel.Bouyer%lip6.fr@localhost
>     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --

Hi Manuel,

I resolved the problem by updating the BIOS.  Although the BIOS did find 
both drives consistently the delay in finding the second (always the 
DVD-RAM drive) was apparently too long for the NetBSD-5.0 boot code.

Thanks for looking at this.

George E Sollish        Chief Engineer
                        Auto Gear Company