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From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 + Mitsumi CDROM problems
Date: 25 May 95 21:25:19
Organization: Gene Stark's home system
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In-reply-to: 2schaefe@rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de's message of 24 May 1995 21:02:04 GMT

In article <3q06sc$j0c@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> 2schaefe@rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Leslie Schaefer) writes:

>   Hi guys,
>   I've just received a Walnut Creek FreeBSD CD to install on someone
>   elses system and have run into problems - could someone please help?
>   The system is as follows:
>   NE2000 network card configured to I/O x300 IRQ 5
>   HD 408 MB, 899 cylinders, 15 heads, 62 sectors, I/O x1f0, IRQ 14 (IDE)
>   FD I/O x3f0, IRQ 6
>   Seriell I/O x3f8+x2f8, IRQ 4+3
>   Mitsumi CDROM I/O x340, IRQ 11, DMA 5
>   no paralell...
>
>   During initial boot the net card and the cd are correctly recognised,
>   as is everything else, the install programm only makes special files 
>   in /dev for the cdrom at x300 (/dev/cd0a, /dev/cd0c and /dev/cd0d)
>   and not for the cd at x340 (being /dev/cd1a etc..)  When the install prog 
>   then wants to mount the cd it does a mount with the device /dev/cd0a
>   and not the (non existent) /dev/cd1a.  I've tried putting the net card on 
>   x280 but get problems with booting (wonky main board I presume).  My only 

Remove the network card.  Boot the system with the -c flag, and change the
address of the Mitsumi from 0x300 to 0x340.  Install FreeBSD.  Configure
and compile a custom kernel with the Mitsumi at 0x340 and the network card
at 0x300.  Replace the network card and boot the custom kernel instead of
the generic one.  Off you go...

							- Gene Stark