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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD not recognizing SCSI CD-ROM
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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 15:02:36 GMT
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In article <3ehi0n$e6s@nyx10.cs.du.edu> rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis) writes:

>I have a Mitsumi controller card and a Mitsumi drive,  which should work
>under FreeBSD, but nothing works.

I assume you used the correct IRQ, memory and DMA ports. If you did the system
would have found the CDROM when it booted (look in your /var/log/messages for
mcd). when mounting the Mitsumi CDROM you need to use /dev/mcd0a, not
/dev/cd0a.

--mark.