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From: "Keith W." <kwoody@citytel.netNO-SPAM>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Sony CDU31A
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:09:54 -0700
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Ive got the above cd rom drive. I used it in a 386 to install 2.1.7 a few 
times. I then got my hands on an old 486dx/66 EISA-VL bus machine. I 
swapped over the cd and booted up the boot flop, went through the visual 
config, and it saw the cd rom but didnt have time to install, so left the 
machine sitting at the first screen after all the probes.

I ended up turning off the machine and again booted it a few days later, 
it saw the cd etc and I again got hung up and didnt get to install and had 
to power down again.

Well finally had a few uninterupted hours to use up and went to install 
BSD last night. Well for some strange reason the probe will not recognize 
the cd anymore. Its set on address 340 as far as I know, since thats what 
Ive used for it in the past. 

It works fine in dos, but one thing I did do a few days ago was change 
the IRQ of my network card from 5 to 10. 

Now this cd drive was given to me, no docs, just card, cable and drive. I 
plugged it in and away I went for dos, but for BSD I had to hunt to find out 
what I/O addrs it might be on and 340 was the one that worked. 

Now because ed0 is now on irq 10 could this be causeing the probe not to 
find the scd0 now? I would imagine even though the cdu31a is scsi(?) that 
it would use an IRQ also? Might it have been setup to use IRQ 10? The 
controller card has jumpers but darned if I know what to set them at or 
what they are currently set for, all I know is i/o addrs 340.

Anywhere I can get info on the card, or failing that I guess I'll have to 
change my network card to another IRQ and see if that works.

Any info appreciated.
kwoody@citytel.net