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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.171.20.9!news.nkn.net!dfw.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!uhclem From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Subject: Re: Panasonic CR562 CD-ROM on SB16 ;freeBSD 2.1.5R X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: The Big Blue Box Message-ID: <E7Iy2L.Ls3@nemesis.lonestar.org> References: <5gjm7o$mnr@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 01:42:20 GMT Lines: 34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37655 Guy M Bennett (gmb@klee.me.ic.ac.uk) wrote on one very long line: : Has anyone tried to boot a Panasonic CR562 CD-ROM on a SoundBlaster 16 : interfaceusing 2.1.5R? I have been trying for ages with no luck, both : with the GENERIC kernel and a custom one. I was under the impression : from the freeBSD website docs that matcdc0 was the driver/controller : to use. What gives? Help please. The CR562 drive is supported under 2.1.5 and works quite well. It is probable that you don't have things strapped/jumpered on your sound card to match the default settings used by the matcd driver. Please read the man page (man 4 matcd) for plenty of details on what you need to do. Be sure that the drive is jumpered as drive select 0. Matcd requires the first drive be drive 0. Some MS-DOS drivers are less picky and will allow the lone CD-ROM drive to be jumpered as 0, 1, 2 or 3. Matcd supports up to 16 drives on four interfaces (for big NFS-accessed archives), so the drive selects need to be correct. You might also consider letting the driver try to locate your hardware by using boot -c and specifying -1 for the ioport. This causes the driver to check several commonly-used I/O ports for your drive. I don't recommend this as a permanent setting since it can prevent other devices from initializing. However, once the hardware has been detected, you can use boot -c and set the correct I/O port. This is also documented in the man page and the FreeBSD troubleshooting Q&A. If you are still having trouble, send me mail. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" |"A what?" or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983