From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 18:20:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA22586 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA22581 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00512; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:20:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Luis-Felipe Lopez Pellicena cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Requesting help about FREEBSD In-Reply-To: <31EA899D.340D@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Luis-Felipe Lopez Pellicena wrote: > When attempting to install the last release of FreeBSD the > installation kernel refused to recognize my old single speed Mitsumi > CDROM drive (configured with the factory defaults, that's it, I/O port = > 0x300, DRQ=5, IRQ=10) installed in my Foxen 30 MHz (486WB OPTI system). Did you configure the 'mcd0' device in -c? > I suspect that there are some bus timing problems, since Linux > runs smoothly with the above configuration and FreeBSD's device probing > reports of a "timeout getting status" when looking for the mcd0 and mcd1 > devices. Of course, I made sure that there were no hardware conflicts. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major