On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Kevin T. Likes wrote:
> I'm running 2.1.5-RELEASE on a pentium 133 with a PCI and an ISA
> bus, and an IDE contoller. I also have what is identified on bootup
> as an ATAPI device NEC CDROM:282.
>
> I rebuilt the kernel with the following options:
>
> options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM
>
> Running nm on the kernel shows a number of what appear to be functions
> to access wcd0, but when I try to mount I get the following error:
>
> bash# mount /dev/wcd0c /mnt
> /dev/wcd0c on /mnt: Device not configured
>
> dmesg shows the system doesn't seem to be even scanning for the device
> at all. What steps am I missing?
If the wdc probe doesn't find it during startup, then it won't be
configured.
Try moving it to the slave position on the primary IDE controller.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
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