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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
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In article <4eh0qa$9ma@times.tfs.com>,
julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) wrote:
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>From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
>Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
>Subject: Re: Is this Soundcard and Future Domain SCSI supported?
>Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:28:10 GMT
>Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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>In article <4egohe$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?
>: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.. ?
sort of I tried looking up their pages and trying to find some info on it but no luck
yet.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated THANKS!!!
>
also and ideas how to fix my man pages since they are kind of important for me
at this stage of learning I get this error when I try to format a man page into the
cat directories such as man mount
/kernal: pid 446: troff uid 9: exited on signal 8
groff: troff: Exec format error
I tried to delete the mount.8.gz in the /usr/share/man/cat8 directory and doing it all
over again no such luck.
>