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From: garybarr@netcom.com (Gary Barrentine)
Subject: Re: Configuring Mitsumi CD-ROM
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 00:53:01 GMT
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Mike Digdon (digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca) wrote:
: I'm trying to get FBSD 2.0 to recognize my Mitsumi FX series 4x CD-ROM, but
: I'm not having a whole lot of success.

: DOS happily recognizes it, and tells me the following information:
: unit 0, SLAVE irq14 0x01f0

SLAVE to what, from the irq level the IDE HD?  if so no FreeBSD will not
recognize it.  It uses the Mitsumi interface.

: The device line in my configuration file looks something like this (I can't
: quite remember what I have):
: device mcd0 at isa? port  0x1f0 ... irq14 vector mcdintr

: Does any of the above look correct?  Will the 4x work with 2.0?  How about
: 2.1?

: BTW, are there some docs somewhere that explain what goes into the config
: file and tells what each field represents?  I've looked through my system,
: but can't seem to find much.  Better try man config again.. :)

: --
:          Mike Digdon # Network Operation Centre # Dalhousie University
:           Phone: +1 902 494-1873 # E-mail: digdon@snoopy.ucis.dal.ca

There is a FAQ can't remember which one but its there that tells what
each field is.

GB

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