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From: Antonio Navarro Navarro <antonio@bemarnet.es>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help - Soundblaster/CDRom/FreeBSD 2.1 Problems
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 18:19:34 +0100
Organization: BemarNet Management
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To: Stephen Conn <ils@jagunet.com>

Stephen Conn wrote:

> I'm currently having two problems:
> 1) Whe using the boot floppy to install FreeBSD, the probes are unable
> to find my CDRom (CDD-110) drive. It's an IDE drive and is connected
> to a Soudblaster audio card. All other DOS programs recognize the
> drive at port 340. I have tried configuring the drives during the boo
> process using the "-c" command. Even after inputing port 340 into all
> the available CDRom devices listed, the probes are still not able to
> find the CDRom.

Try connecting the CD-ROM unit directly to the IDE Controller as the 
second hard disk instead of connecting it to the SB.

Regards.


------------------------------------------------------------------------  Antonio Navarro Navarro
  BemarNet Management
  e-mail : hostmaster@bemarnet.es
  url : http://www.bemarnet.es