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From: rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD not recognizing SCSI CD-ROM
Date: 5 Jan 1995 12:41:11 -0700
Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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jsteele@access.digex.net (Jeffrey V. Steele) writes:
>After playing around with Linux for several months, I thought I'd give
>FreeBSD a spin. However, while trying to install FreeBSD from a CD-ROM,
I
>cannot get the kernel on the boot disk to recognize my cdrom. The drive
>is a media vision scsi drive running off a sound card. The scsi driver
s
>a Future Domain 8xx which is supposed to be supported by FreeBSD.
>When I do the kernel -c option during boot up, I don't see /dev/cd0a
>listed among the devices. Then, when I run the setup program, I get a
>message saying that /dev/cd0a does not exist or something. However, a l
>of /dev shows that there is a cd0a in theres.
>Any suggestions about what to do?
>All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>Jeff
>--
>Jeffrey V. Steele -- jsteele@access.digex.net -- finger for PGP Public K
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I have FreeBSD 1.0 running on a Cyrix 486-33 and the CDROM just does not
work on that system. the best I have been able to figure out is that the
CDROM handler does not work at all under 1.0.
I wound up copying the files from the CDROM on mmy Amiga to make a floppy
installation, and then did the installation from the floppies.
I have a Mitsumi controller card and a Mitsumi drive, which should work
under FreeBSD, but nothing works.
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rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu Robert Davis Salina, KS
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