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From: etmelag@dcrosby27.ericsson.se (Louis Lagendijk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Panasonic CDrom
Date: 17 May 1995 21:59:24 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecommunication B.V., Rijen, The Netherlands (ETM)
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Message-ID: <3pdrjs$r3d@erinews.ericsson.se>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dcrosby27.ericsson.se

I am quite sure I overlook something very obvious:
I am trying to install FreeBSD next to my Linux as I would like to 
see what advanteges (sp?) it has to offer over Linux.
I do however have a Panasonic CR563 CDRom player that works well
under Dos and Linux.
I now noticed that the latest SNAP's (I tried SNAP-950412) has support
for this CDrom Player so I decided to try to install FreeBSD.
I could not find any documentation on it so far...
When I boot from my harddisk probing is done on FFFF, so I played 
around with the kernel -c option. The drive is then detected after
setting the correct port address. When I try to mount the drive
(from sysinstall) I get kernel page faults.

Under Linux and dos I must tell the drivers that the drive is on a
Lasermate type of interface. I guess that I would have to tell the
FreeBSD driver the same thing, right? If so, how do I go about doing
that? If not, what stupic mistakes did I make and what should I have 
read?
 

 Cheers, Louis