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From: mds@rich.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark D. Spiller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: floptical/CDROM problems
Date: 23 Aug 1994 17:47:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Hi -

I have been having some probems getting my cdrom and floptical
drives to work with FreeBSD - they both work fine with DOS.
(and both are SCSI).

I found no reference to flopticals in the FAQ, and was wondering
if anyone had successfully gotten one working?  At bootup, if I
have a floptical in the drive, the system hangs.  If I boot up
with no disk in the drive, and then put one in and try to mount
-t pcfs it, it gives an error having to do with bad configuration...

For the cdrom, FreeBSD recognizes it fine on startup, as dev cd0,
but when I try to do a mount -t pcfs, I get something along the lines
of "Mount : input/output error."

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Mark D. Spiller