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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!agate!barkley.ME.Berkeley.EDU!allynh From: allynh@barkley.ME.Berkeley.EDU (Allyn Hardyck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: NEC CD-ROMs and the latest Adaptec driver Date: 13 May 1997 17:40:33 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5la92h$206$1@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: barkley.me.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40800 200 MHz Pentium Pro; Adaptec 2940UW controller; NEC CDR-1610 CD-ROM drive I thought I figured out how to get around the problem I was having at boot time with my CD-ROM. Having a CD in the drive at boot time at least kept the bus reset errors from holding up the boot, and the boot sequence properly identified the drive. I could mount the UNIX partition from a Cisco documentation CD. But trying to play an audio CD crashed the machine. A recent posting from Petr Lampa implied that installing the most recent Adaptec driver might clear up the problem. I attempted to break out the Adaptec code from FreeBSD-current and compile a new kernel with it. Booting without a CD in the drive took a long time again, but the drive was identified eventually. Trying to play a CD resulted in "unspecified" errors but did not crash the system. However, booting with a CD and then trying to play it froze the machine as before. It didn't reboot itself though, and the log received more useful details than before. I'd appreciate any advice from people with functioning NEC drives. Also, I have output from the messages log if anyone is interested. Thanks, Allyn Hardyck allynh@barkley.me.berkeley.edu