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From: tomaz@cmir.arnes.si (Tomaz Borstnar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 and Sony CDU55 CD-ROMDrive
Date: 21 Sep 1995 10:13:44 +0200
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In article <fdaf-2009952245430001@miscus.tuev.spacenet.de> fdaf@tuev.spacenet.de (Fedinand Dafelmair) writes:

   I just got a 486 DX4/100 Computer with IDE controller on board and a
   Seagate ST31220A 1GB Hard Disk and a SONY CDU55D CD-ROM Drive attached to
   the IDE controller. The generic kernel on my boot disk works well with the
   hard disk drive but with the CD-ROM i've got a problem. 

I have very similar setup - except that i have 2 such disks and CDU55E. Looks
like controller is EIDE since sony is connected to same card as HDs. But even
with -current FreeBSD doesn't recognize cdrom. I played with settings on cdrom
to make it master,slave,csel and looks like under dos it needs to be master 
to work at all.

Is controller dual-channel IDE perhaps? Maybe connecting cdrom to same cable
as hd would work, but dunno if freebsd would work with other disk on separate
cable. Any clues?

   Has anybody a solution for using a SONY CDU55D CD-ROM with FreeBSD 2.0.5. ?

Yes, get freebsd-current. Supposedly it works OK in such setup.



Tomaz