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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!usenet From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD CD ROM problems Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 13:09:30 -0700 Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 29 Message-ID: <316820FA.350F@ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirajul.engr.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Hi, we have a 486-66Mhz here in the lab that we wish to install a Un*x operating system on. One problem is that the system got trashed, including the CD-ROM controller in DOS. We therefore were hoping to make this a Un*x X station. We have tried installing Linux & FreeBSD from CD-ROM's, to no avail. FreeBSD seems to give a better clue as to a possible problem. The system has a Mitsumi CD ROM and an Intel EtherExpress card. On boot up of the installation disk, it claims that it detects a Misumi CD-ROM at mcd0 with some sort of conflict and one at mcd1 (port: 0x340-0x343, irq=11), but the install program does not see the CDROM. I was wondering if the Intel card might be part of the problem. The install disk has a note that to get the Intel EtherExpress card to work, one must disable mcd0 & mcd1. It seems the system gets confused. My question is, can FreeBSD even be run with both of these peices of equipment, or if we are simply hosed. Any help would be appreciated. -- - Mike ======================================================================== | | | _ | Michael D. White _______|/V\|_______ University of California, Davis X------------[_\(.)/_]------------X Dept. of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering /o`~|~`o\ white@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu O H O http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~mdwhite http://www-mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/CFD/white ========================================================================