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#! rnews 1915 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.spss.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!salliemae!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.nordwest.de!lemur.nord.de!usenet From: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mitsumi FX300 CDROM and 2.1.0R Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:38:57 +0100 Organization: Lemuria Private Computing Lines: 29 Message-ID: <310403F1.41C67EA6@lemur.nord.de> References: <4d94di$i53@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dagobert.lemur.nord.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) G. Ioannou wrote: > > 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? > > -g I got the FX300 ATAPI CD-ROM drive working on FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE without any problem. It is installed in a 386DX40 with a simple IDE host adapter as the second drive. I could install FreeBSD directly from the distribution CD (without boot floppy). To be able to mount CDs after the installation I had to rebuild the kernel with option ATAPI device wcd0 Regards, Thomas