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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ge.switch.ch!cmir.arnes.si!kanja.arnes.si!eunet.si!blaz From: blaz@amis.net (Blaz Zupan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP ! Future Domain 36C70 !! Date: 9 Jul 1997 07:47:09 GMT Organization: AMIS.NET Lines: 18 Message-ID: <slrn5s6hkk.n82.blaz@server.amis.net> References: <33c1f412.155108@news.kornet.nm.kr> <33C21A64.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <33c212a5.248535@news.kornet.nm.kr> <33C230CF.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <01bc8c2b$99a5e600$c44756ce@bbuhr> NNTP-Posting-Host: server.amis.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.0 UNIX) Cache-Post-Path: server.amis.net!blaz@server.amis.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44146 In article <01bc8c2b$99a5e600$c44756ce@bbuhr>, Betty Buhr wrote: >I am really confused. This is my first experience with installing FreeBSD. > I have looked in the hardware.txt file and see only three CDroms listed: > mcd0 Mitsumi CD-ROM > matcd0 Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM > scd0 Sony CD-ROM >Does this mean that these are the only scsi cdroms that can be recognized? >If so, where can I get one? If not, where do I find the config info on >other drives? No, those are not SCSI CD-ROM's, those are proprieraty controller for CD-ROM's, so they need a special driver. SCSI CD-ROM's use the "cd" driver (generic) attached to your SCSI adapter (which has to be supported). An Adaptec 2940 is a good choice, for example. -- Blaz Zupan, blaz@amis.net, http://www.amis.net/staff/blaz Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia