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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!rockyd!cmcl2!sparky.cs.nyu.edu!steinber From: steinber@sparky.cs.nyu.edu (Joseph Steinberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Is there a trick to getting a Mitsumi CDROM recognized Date: 21 Jul 1995 02:30:43 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3un3gj$hb2@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> References: <3uhlrc$al2@sphinx.Gsu.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cs.nyu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] A mitsumi on irq11 (0x340) will cause problem to FreeBSD 2.0.5 (or any previous release) if it is the only CD. The system thinks it is mcd1 and not mcd0. My guess is that this is the case for all BSD pollers. JS Elizabeth Strickler (matess@ubu.cs.gsu.edu) wrote: : I am trying to install BSDi on a 486 that is not SCSI and has a Mitsumi : CD-ROM drive. When the machine boots off of the floppies, it does not : recognize the CD-ROM. I look at the probe and it doesn't seem to see : anything but the hard drive. Is there a trick to installing with a : Mitsumi drive? Any pointers would be appreciated. : Elizabeth : : -- : \|/--_ -_- ---- ### _- ---------------------- : -0 -_- -- -__ %~- ____#0 _- Elizabeth Strickler : |\ ^ 0\~ /\ /\ - estrickler@cs.gsu.edu : |_(___/ \_ ||_________/ _/ |_/ \_ http://www.cs.gsu.edu/eli