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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.ios.com!news From: df4889@atlas.ccm.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with a _supported_ CD-ROM... Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 16:51:51 GMT Organization: Francosteel Corp. Lines: 53 Message-ID: <4ch0dq$qi5@news.ios.com> Reply-To: df4889@atlas.ccm.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-52.ts-1.nyc.idt.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hey everybody.... Pardon me for being a pain but I need some help here. I have been using Linux Version 2.3 (Kernel 1.2.8) for some time now and I recently decided to give FreeBSD a shot. I purchased the latest version (Jan. '95) from Walnut Creek CD-ROM and went ahead with a beginner install. Here's what I got.... I ran the batch file from the CD under dos which the instructions suggest if at all possible. Everything seemed to work fine and I got messages much like those under Linux confirming my hardware addresses, etc. It even found my CD-ROM to be a FX001 Mitsumi attached at 0x340, IRQ 11. All this is correct and is the same for Linux and DOS/Windows. Here's the catch... When I set up the hardrives, everything goes great until I tell it to install it from a CD-ROM. Then it tells me I don't have a valid CD-ROM device. Needless to say, I'm a bit confused by this since it did correctly find my CD-ROM drive and was using it up until that point. I need to know if there is something I need to do to get around this problem. I'd much rather install from CD-ROM than from a DOS partition but if that's what it takes.... I am using a Petium-90 with 8Mb of RAM, an OPTI PCI Bridge chipset, a Conner 850Mb drive and a Western Digital 730MB drive. My CD-ROM is a Mitsumi Double Spin drive (FX0001-d I think...it is the one that is supported :) and is connected to my Sound Blaster AWE32's Mitsumi port. The board is an exact replacement for the original Mitsumi controller card and it uses the exact same drivers under DOS and Windows. I tried booting using the '-c' option to configure the settings of my hardware. I removed everything but the necessities and I selected the correct settings for those item which I do have. I've been fooling with this for two weeks now and it's driving me nuts. I'm sure it is something very simple but I just can't figure out what. I really appreciate your time and I hope you can help. Any and all replies are welcome! :) -Dave PS: I would try the old Mitsumi card but the one I was given when I purchased the drive is a clone and uses different IRQ and Hex settings than those listed as being supported under FreeBSD. Also, as I said, the AWE32 has a built in interface that fits the exact same standards as the original anyway. Under DOS I use the drivers from Mitsumi to access the interface on the AWE32 and under Linux 1.2.8 it works fine as a Misumi interface and drive on 0x340 and IRQ 11. *sigh* Ah well... Thanks again for your time! If you need any more info feel free to e-mail me at: df4889@atlas.ccm.edu or DaveChaos@aol.com (Yes, I know, AOHELL but hey, it's great for when my provider is down!)