From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 03:43:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA04101 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:43:49 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA04095 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:43:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA24693; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:42:17 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: rsilfhou@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Ruud van Silfhout) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Panasonic 563 CDROM support In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jan 95 12:21:29 +0100." <9501121121.AA13508@mmra1.ms.philips.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:42:16 -0800 Message-ID: <24692.789910936@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)