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From: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU>
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM
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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Christopher J Michaels wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >   When I first tried installing FreeBSD (I did it several times before I 
> > got it right)I was able to use my cd-rom.  Now in this current 
> > insatallation I am unable to use it.
> >   On boot, matcd0c & matcd0 seem to load & see my cd-rom ok.  I tried 
> > running 'sh MAKEDEV matcd0' and 'sh MAKEDEV local matcd0' I'm out of 
> > ideas.  Either it gives me '/dev/rmatcd0c: Permission denied' or it will 
> > give me errors saying it could not open the drive and was unable to 
> > retrieve the disk size.
> 
> Check 'dmesg' and make sure matcd0 is probing properly.
> 
> You may have failed to update the irq and port settings.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 

Yes I checked and it is probing properly.  Any other ideas?


 -Christopher Michaels                         Student Consultant:645-3542
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