Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:42:16 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: rsilfhou@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Ruud van Silfhout) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Panasonic 563 CDROM support Message-ID: <24692.789910936@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jan 95 12:21:29 %2B0100." <9501121121.AA13508@mmra1.ms.philips.nl>
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There is no driver for this yet. You can always install through a DOS partition, if it comes to that. Several people are working on SB CDROM support and I do hope that something might be available by 2.1. Jordan > I want to install FreeBSD 2.0 from a CDROM. I have a Panasonic CDROM drive > connected to a SoundBlaster16 compatible board (from Genius) in a Pentium90 P C. > I have found the following technical information > - audiocard's I/O base address 220 > - Panasonic CR-563-x 0.75 double speed drive > The drive is not recognized while booting and also no driver is loaded after > the first part of the installation of FreeBSD 2.0. BTW I heard that the drive > is supported by Linux. > I have the following questions: > Is there a driver for the Panasonic CDROM drive available for FreeBSD 2.0? > What should I do to make a boot floppy which recognized the drive (I still do > not have a running version of FreeBSD). > > > Thanks for your time > Ruud van Silfhout (rsilfhou@mmra1.ms.philips.nl)
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