I'm sorry - you do not indicate what the result was when you tried
	the CDROM on wdc0 under NetBSD, or normal IDE drives on wdc2... :)

		David/abs

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Vallo Kallaste wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	Have you tried disabling wdc2 and connecting the CDROM to wdc0?
> > 	(To try to track whether the problem lies with the drive or the
> > 	controller.) Do normal IDE drives work on wdc2?
> 
> ***
> 
> Oh yes, this is the first thing I tried. At moment I have fully working
> system under FreeBSD and Linux ( wdc0, wdc1, wdc2, four IDE drives and one
> atapi CDROM ). I also added two devices to the wdc2 for experimenting (
> CDROM and one IDE disk ) and this mix works wonderfully. I think the
> NetBSD support for atapi cdrom's etc. is slightly poor nowadays, IMHO.  On
> second thought I like NetBSD a bit more than FreeBSD, because under NetBSD
> I have good support for my PnP GUS and I have no care adding the wdc2 to
> kernel config. There are some difficulties to point out why the IO_WD3
> gives me an error at first try, when I compile kernel under FreeBSD with
> wdc2 support. I emphasize that I'm not programmer in any way and this was
> a problem for me. Under situations like this kernel config file comments
> are very good, but there are no comment for IO_WD3 etc...Then I searched
> through the source and found a isa.h file which haves defines all this
> stuff...damn, all this wastes my time.
> 
> I mean this cry is specifically for FreeBSD team, so excuse me wasting
> bandwidth and thanks for reading.
> 
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> 
> 
> Vallo Kallaste
> vallo@matti.ee
>