Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:21:05 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Chow Chi-Ming <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony CDU31a not recognised Message-ID: <32EDE121.4B97@barcode.co.il> References: <199701280426.MAA01808@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk>
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Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > > Hi, > > Got the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1.6 twin CD set and tried to install on > my 486-120, 16M ram, PCI machine with a Sony CDU31a CDROM drive > attached to a sound blaster 16 card. I booted from DOS to the FreeBSD does not support ATAPI CDs on sound cards. Move the CD to one of your "standard" IDE channels (preferably as the slave on the master controller or as the master on the secondary controller). There's a good chance it will be recognized there. > installation menu, chose novice install. I chose CDROM when the > installation asked me to select a media. It then said CDROM not found > or some such. > > The CDROM drive is detecetd correctly in Linux. > > Any help would be appreciated. Please mail me direct as I am not on > the list. > > Are there docs/faqs comparing linux and freebsd? > > Thanks. > > -- > Billy C.-M. Chow <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk> > Department of Systems Engineering > The Chinese University of Hong Kong Nadav
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