From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 22 17:37:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19372 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:37:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19366 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 103s12-0001H9-00; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:37:37 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id BAA00518; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:37:05 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17198; Sat, 23 Jan 99 01:37:02 GMT Message-Id: <36A9269E.EC35389A@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:32:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Albert Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Can't detect my Matsushita/Panasonic IDE CDROM. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > Albert Chen wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm using Matsushita/Panasonic IDE CDROM, but seems FreeBSD can't detect > > > it. > > > I add the line "controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230 bio" in > > > kernel > > > config file, but it doesn't work. > > > Would anyone tell me how to solve this problem, thanks in advance. > > > > All you need to do is us the ATAPI options. specifically add this to your > kernel config file: > > options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus > options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM > device acd0 #IDE CD-ROM ATAPI & ATAPI_STATIC are in GENERIC anyway, as is wcd0 and matcd0. acd0 is for CD-ROM & CD-R/RW according to LINT and should be used *in place of* wcd, so if the original poster is booting the GENERIC kernel there shouldn't be a problem. What's confusing me is ''I add the line "controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230 bio" in kernel''. Why? when it's there already? > > it doesn't matter who makes the drive as long as it is IDE. > > Kenneth Culver -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message