On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:09:17 +1300, Stephen Nelson wrote: > OpenBSD can boot from cd and install from ftp successfully. However, I > cannot access the CDROM drive during the install process or from the > installed os.
> I would greatly appreciate help with this. It is an important project > for our company, and if it would help solve the problem we may be able > to offer a bounty to get this hardware working. Let me repeat my suggestion as well, then: Open one of the boxes and swap the IDE-cable. Then swap the CD with another drive; different manufacturer. There is still a small chance that you ran into a bus master problem with two devices requesting it (1030 and DVD). The latest Intel IDE-chips are said to not support bus mastering. When the DVD is such a device, it will bring conflicts. I agree that the chances of the latter are low, because other OSes support both devices. But if you're really interested, give it a go. Or, donate one of the boxes to a developer to get it resolved ;) Uwe
