From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 12:01:59 -0500 From: Luther Huffman lutherh@mail.infinet.com Subject: Adding pcdist to CD-ROM file system? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3814c27a-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19951209170159.qAuAO_lNxdeYKv8yvgVHsSYs_GOELLTxrQq6nwZJtAE@z> > From: "jim mckie " > Could you elaborate on what the ATAPI problems were and how you fixed them? > It's the season's hot topic. Oh, hell! I knew someone was going to ask that question. =;-) Well, the problem I was having was that the Plan 9 installer simply wasn't seeing that I had an ATAPI drive attached (On secondary IDE controller, IRQ 15, IO at 0170). Today I got the installer to find it. I would love to say that I cracked this problem with the brute force of my intellect, but the truth is I'm not sure how I did it! It was either one (or both [or neither!]) of two things I tried: 1. I found that the jumper on the CD-ROM drive was set to slave by the PC manufacturer even though it was the only drive attached to its controller. Being set as a slave has never affected how it operated under Windows or Windows 95. I suspect this is because Microsoft is used to thinking of *everything* as its slave. I changed the jumper to set the CD-ROM as master. 2. I originally had this line in plan9.ini: ata1=irq=15 I now have these two lines: ata1=irq=15 ata2=irq=15 I know it looks crazy but *something* worked! I think it's kind of like using SCSI on the Mac. Logic tells you to put the SCSI terminator on the last device in the chain but sometimes it needs to be placed elsewhere in the chain. I try not to rationalize it. I just do it!. > The safest way to install the updates is to get the source updates from > plan9.att.com and compile and install. Thanks. I found them. I'll try to install them. As I understand it, I start the self-extraction by typing: rc patchname.rc I should get a slew of diff files and (perhaps?) a mk file to oversee everything, right? Thanks to everyone, Luther Huffman, Jr.