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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!dfw.nkn.net!rowdy.lonestar.org!nemesis!uhclem From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Subject: Re: Has anybody gotten Pan. CR-563 on Sound blaster to work? X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Organization: The Big Blue Box Message-ID: <DLwvLt.515@nemesis.lonestar.org> References: <4eel5d$r94@dec3300.cuug.ab.ca> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:56:17 GMT Lines: 42 Patrick G. LeBlanc,, 403 234-9378, (leblancp@cuug.ab.ca) wrote: [0] Like the subject says, has anyone managed to get their Matsushita / [0]Panasonic 2 speed cdrom (cr-563 connected through a S.B16 interface) to be [0]recognized properly by the FreeBSD kernel? Yes, many people have these drives working just fine. (I even have systems that have more than one CD-563 drive and they all work.) [0]It is a supported drive [0]according to all the documentation but it doesn't work. Is there is [0]newer version of the kernel available that might fix this problem? What version of FreeBSD do you have? 2.0.5 or 2.1? If you have 2.0.5, there are some sound cards that are not 100% compatible with the SoundBlaster CD-ROM interface (ie made by people other than Creative Labs) and they won't work right. If you have this problem, the symptom is that you get the same message looping over and over again when the system boots but if you simply upgrade to 2.1.0 it will be fixed. All known "Creative/Panasonic" interface adapters work in 2.1.0. If the system simply says "matcd not found" during booting, the hardware isn't where you said it was (or allowed it to default to). If you have 2.1.0, try booting with the "-c" option, then type: port matcdc -1 [ENTER] then type: q [ENTER] This command tells the matcd driver to look at a lot of other places rather than just one I/O port. 2.0.5 does this automatically. This information is also in the HARDWARE.TXT file Q&A section. However, even this search doesn't check every possible location. You may need to specify the location of your CD-ROM interface explicitly. Look at the man pages (man 4 matcd) for information on how to do it. If your DOS system can find the drive, determine what address it is using (from the boot screen or the DOS driver instructions, CONFIG.SYS, etc) and use that information to set the correct address in FreeBSD. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" ^------(this is the fastest route)|"A what?" or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983