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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Free BSD
To: Pafwl@aol.com
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 21:16:08 -0800 (PST)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org, rakitt@abest.com
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I wish we had some way of registering WHO knows about which driver...
We just need to hope someone who has one of these or knows about that driver
happens to see your post....
me, I run 100% SCSI.

> 
> This is my second E-Mail about his subject.  I purchased FreeBSD thinking I
> had a Sound blaster CD rom drive only to try to install it and found out I
> had a Panasonic IDE CDROM drive that I know your literature says I cannot
> use.  I have been trying for 2 days to load from floppies but to no avail.  
> 
> Tonight I went out and purchased a Creative 2X CDROM drive ($69.95) and
> connected it to my sound blaster card.  It works fine.  I ran the FreeBSD
> Install program on the CDROM and this is what is says when the kernel boot is
> looking for the cdrom..
> 
> mcd1 not found at 0x340
> matcdo - Matsushita (Panasonic) CD Rom Driver by FDIV Version 1(16)  4-Apr-95
> matcdo at 0X250-0x253 in isa
> matcd0: ['               ]  matcd1: ['               ]  matcd2: ['
>               ]  matcd3: ['               ] 
> scd0 not found at 0X230
> 
> Since I know that the card is at 240 and says the cdrom is at 250 when i boot
> into DOS I assume the kernel is seeing the CDROM.
> 
> When I go into the Media section of the install and select CDROM I get a
> message telling me that the CDROM is not recognized.
> 
> Please HELP!
> 
> Please respond to pafwl@aol.com
> 
> Thanks....
>