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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.orst.edu!wsrcc.com!wetware!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!hal.COM!bdt.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.pixi.com!rodan16 From: still@lost.com (Still) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is this Soundcard and Future Domain SCSI supported? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 96 02:45:51 GMT Organization: Pacific Information eXchange, Inc. Lines: 57 Message-ID: <4eml4v$1t5i_002@rodan16.pixi.com> References: <4egohe$jm@rigel.pixi.com> <4eh0qa$9ma@times.tfs.com> <4emklm$1t5i_001@rodan16.pixi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan16.pixi.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 In article <4emklm$1t5i_001@rodan16.pixi.com>, still@lost.com (Still) wrote: >Path: news.pixi.com!rodan16 >From: still@lost.com (Still) >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc >Subject: Re: Is this Soundcard and Future Domain SCSI supported? >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 96 02:37:42 GMT >Organization: Pacific Information eXchange, Inc. >Lines: 81 >Message-ID: <4emklm$1t5i_001@rodan16.pixi.com> >References: <4egohe$jm@rigel.pixi.com> <4eh0qa$9ma@times.tfs.com> >NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan16.pixi.com >X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 >Status: N > >In article <4eh0qa$9ma@times.tfs.com>, > julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) wrote: >>Path: news.pixi.com!coconut!news.enteract.com!news.voyager.net!nntp.netrex.net!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 >>Status: N >> >>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.. >> > >oh... great... I wish I knew how I'm still trying to figure everything out and >trying to get it running. I guess the driver you are talking about is for the >Sound card? > Ooops sorry didn't read too good... yeah that's the big problem is I don't know what model the FD SCSI is... I also have a Old Storage Dimensions SCSI controller but that isn't supported either. >