From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 11:04:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA21034 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:04:36 -0700 Received: from nak.berkeley.edu (nak.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.136.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA21028 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:04:35 -0700 Received: from olac.Berkeley.EDU by nak.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.40) id LAA29893; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:04:34 -0700 Received: by olac.Berkeley.EDU (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03912; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:02:26 +0800 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 11:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Erik A. Pearson" X-Sender: epearson@olac To: Terry Lambert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 & mitsumi lu002 In-Reply-To: <9505091738.AA08176@cs.weber.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 2409 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 May 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > However, last night I was poking around the BSD Web Page for information > > on this problem, and ran into your suggestion, as put forth in the usenet > > archives by Sean Kelly (12/28/94). However, after trying this there was no > > discernable improvement -- I tried all available irqs on the card with the > > matching irq on the card -- the io address is fine too since the probe > > reveals the "version information is 0 M 2" etc. message. > > > > Some of the responses to the usenet threads indicated that this solution > > may not work. Have you found that this actually works? Are there other > > settings on the card or driver that should be changed? Should the DMA > > channel on the card be set to 1, 3, or none? > > I didn't realize from your message that this was an EIDE CDROM drive. Oops, sorry if I gave the wrong impression, it is the lu002 with an 8-bit dedicated interface card, w/ jumpers for i/o address, irq, and DMA channel. The unit was sold as a BMR 6800 (or something like that). > Soren is currently working on a driver for the 2.1 release (it may be > in 2.0.5 if he tries to suprise people). IDE CDROM drives are really > SCSI drives with a slow serial interface for shoving SCSI commands down, > and should be fairly easy to support, but might require some SCSI > hacking as well to allow code reuse. I'd expect that that's why the > driver isn't finished yet. > > You *can* install by copying the files to your DOS partition and > then mounting the DOS partition from BSD to run the install. You will > have a slight problem with X this way because of the long names they > used. This is fixable using the checksum file as a renaming guide > (after you copy the files from the DOS to the BSD file system). Thanks. I may try this, although I don't really have much space on the HD to set up a large enough DOS partition. I suppose could also install over the net, but I bought the CDROM to save the hassle of tearing apart a computer at work to install the drive -- and don't know what problems will ensue from installing on one machine and then switching the drive to another (tried it once with a SNAP, and it didn't quite work). If Sean can get the fixed boot.flp available, that might just solve the problem. Otherwise, it may be off the the store for a little bit of shopping (oh, noooooooooo). Erik Pearson