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From: phil.burden@zetnet.co.uk (Philip Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mitsumi FX300 CDROM and 2.1.0R
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 21:56:59 GMT
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In message <4d94di$i53@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou) writes:
> Has anybody managed to get 2.1.0 RELEASE to recognize the Mitsumi
> FX300 ATAPI IDE CD-ROM? I've been trying all sorts of hardware
> rearrangements and boot configurations but with no success.
> My system is a 486DX33 with 8M RAM, one 210M IDE hard drive, one
> 1.1G EIDE drive, and I have the two hard disks connected to the
> primary controller on the EIDE card, and the CD-ROM connected to
> the secondary controller. This works with DOS, with the CD-ROM
> in either slave or master configuration. I've tried both master
> and slave, different combinations with the two hard disks, disabled
> all non-essential devices during boot, but still no success.
> Any ideas?
not the FX300,but I have got the FX400 working with 2.1,set up as a
master on the secondary controller.It took me a while to make my own
kernel for it,but it works,which,being a total newbie to Unix &
FreeBSD,is quite a feat,for me <grin>.
P.