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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is this Soundcard and Future Domain SCSI supported? Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:28:10 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4eh0qa$9ma@times.tfs.com> References: <4egohe$jm@rigel.pixi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <4egohe$jm@rigel.pixi.com>, Still <still@lost.com> wrote: :I recently purchased (for the CD ROM Player) a sound card SCSI package to use :for a FreeBSD machine I wanted to put up. The Sound Card is a Smart & Friendly :Multimedia package with a Future Domain SCSI port for the SCSI CD ROM I had :hoped to at least get the CD ROM working in FreeBSD because the Future Domain :cards were supported and because the Multimedia package was cheaper than :buying a SCSI CD ROM by itself (Purchased from a Store going out of Business :so very Cheap) and I would get a SCSI card with the CD ROM. The trouble is that while FD SCSI cards in the 885-950 model rnge are supported, you have no information as to what the card YOU have actually is.. it may be IO-port compatible with a supported model, but as the probe routines use the contents of some IO addresses and rom contents to try identify the card, if these are different, the card will not be recognised. You probably should make your own kernel, then fiddle with the sea driver (use printf()) to figure out what contents the driver is actually seeing on the card.. :I would like to :try as much as possible to get the card to work rather than purchasing another :SCSI card to make it work. First of all I don't know what Model of Future :Domain SCSI Card it is supposed to be incorporated into the Sound card and I :don't even know if the sound portion of the card will work with the OS. I'm :not too concerned if the sound doesn't work but I'd like the SCSI CD ROM to :work. : :Here's what I tried to do so far... : :I started the Install from (Walnut Creek CD of FreeBSD) from the CD ROM. :The install went fine until it had to access the CD ROM for the ROOT Disk :install portion where it tried to look for the CD on the SCSI card it couldn't :be found so I used a Root Floppy disk and it installed okay BUT I can't access :the CD and I really would like to to add other stuff into it (once I figure :how) from the CD. Use a DOS partition to stage the stuff across there should be a description on how to do this.. that should at least get you up and going enough to be able to make kernels so you can experiment as I said above.. call the manufactureres.. ? > >Any help would be appreciated THANKS!!!