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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!xanth.cs.odu.edu!maui.cc.odu.edu!jonathan From: jonathan@maui.cc.odu.edu (Jonathan Sturges) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD not recognizing SCSI CD-ROM Date: 5 Jan 1995 19:21:12 GMT Organization: Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3ehgr8$hib@xanth.cs.odu.edu> References: <jsteele-0501951003590001@chrf2.gdn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: maui.cc.odu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jeffrey V. Steele (jsteele@access.digex.net) wrote: : 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 is : a Future Domain 8xx which is supposed to be supported by FreeBSD. It's not clear what you mean. Is the SCSI CD-ROM on the sound card or the Future Domain host adapter? This makes alot of difference. Sound card controllers, as you probably know, aren't supported yet. As for Future Domain SCSI host adapters, I'm not sure. You didn't specify which version of FreeBSD you are trying to install. The older versions DO NOT support the Future Domain cards, and I'm not familiar enough with 2.0 to make a statement either way on it. I'm running 1.1Release (still!) and Future Domain cards aren't supported. If you are positive that the Future Domain card is supported, then make sure your SCSI cables are good (this sounds trivial, but a seemingly good cable can actually be bad, and cause mysterious problems) and make sure you have each end of your SCSI chain properly terminated. Termination problems can often produce mysterious errors, too. If your SCSI connections are good & terminated, and the SCSI card is supported, then the FreeBSD CD-ROM install disk should pick it up real nicely. Worked for me. -Jonathan jonathan@cc.odu.edu PS- I speak for me, not my employer.