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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 and SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2
Date: 14 Jul 1994 14:52:34 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <Csvvop.8Gr@odin.corp.sgi.com>,
Charles Godwin <cgodwin@explorer.corp.sgi.com> wrote:
>
>I have FreeBSD 1.0 and a SoundBlaster SCSI-2 with a Toshiba 3401 internal
>CD ROM drive (200ms, 330 kb/s).  I use whatever that program is to make a boot
>floppy, using the first file, that says use if you have an IDE HD, which I do.
>
>Then, when I boot with the floppy, it gives me the message that it can't find
>a CD ROM drive.

That's because no one has (yet) written a driver for the Sound-Blaster SCSI
port.  Until that's done FreeBSD can't find your CD-ROM.


Nate
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