From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 5:55: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7CFF37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 05:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B7D43E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 05:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9UDt4WJ057969 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:55:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9UDt4i9057966; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:55:04 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matsushita CD-ROM Trouble References: <3DBF77AF.378DDAB0@shaw.ca> <20021030083544.GB49354@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 30 Oct 2002 08:55:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021030083544.GB49354@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <441y686ngn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman writes: > The matcd driver was for an old non-standard device once produced by > Matsushita. Certainly if you're using a recently produced CD drive, > it will be a standard ATAPI or SCSI device and it should be recognised > automatically by the install process. No special driver configuration > required. > > As Michael Joyner said in another response, the matcd driver has been > dropped from 4.7-RELEASE onwards: the device is archaic and rarely > used nowadays. Unfortunately, the original poster *was* using such a device (CR-563). The release notes for 4.7 seem to erroneously still claim support for the driver. Oops. > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:09:51PM -0800, Safman wrote: > > > I am a new user to FreeBSD and am trying to install it for the first > > time. I am installing on a hard disk with two partitions: One already > > has Windows, the other will soon have FreeBSD. > > > > I want to install FreeBSD using CD's, but it doesn't seem to recognize > > my CD drive. I am installing FreeBSD 4.7, and according to > > Hardware.txt, my CD-ROM drive is supported (Matsushita/Panasonic > > CR-563). > > > > I have tried using CLI configuration mode to ">enable matcd0" and got > > the following response: > > No such device: matcd0 > > Invalid command or syntax > > > > I know that the CD-ROM drive itself is working because it works fine > > when I boot up Windows. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for the help... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message