Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:13:32 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Dan Flemming" <danflemming@mac.com>, "Lars Eighner" <eighner@io.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: matcd - how to make it work Message-ID: <00db01bff90a$fa85dfd0$95440ace@mark8> References: <86snsutih9.fsf@dumpster.io.com> <3981A4A5.641D9C8@mac.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Flemming" <danflemming@mac.com> To: "Lars Eighner" <eighner@io.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: Re: matcd - how to make it work > > > Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > I have not been able to get matcd to work since 2.x. > > I have a CR-562 running under the matcd driver quite happily... in > 3.4-RELEASE. No amount of voodoo could persuade it to work under 4.0-RELEASE. > > Which is why I downgraded. > > > I have a Reveal kit CD drive connected through a sound card. > > > > Why can't I mount this drive? > > What was the last version of FBSD to mount, and the first version to refuse? > > Everyone I've talked to says matcd works in 3.x, and requires mystical > voodoo in 4.x, if it works at all. > > I have a boatload of cr-563b twin-spin matsushita cdroms. I can get them to work under 2.x or 3.x if I use a "cd-rom interface card" that just has the proprietary interface on it. If I attempt to get the old SB16 w/proprietary controller going no version of freebsd can find the goofy things. (this is sad because I only have 2 of the stand alone interface cards) I have found an interesting workaround. If I boot a machine into DOS 6.22 and let the cdrom drivers load, then I can give it a soft reboot via the three finger salute and reboot into FreeBSD and presto! FreeBSD finds the cdrom. I take this to mean that the driver for the cd-rom is not correctly initializing something on the sound card to make the cd-rom interface work. I might be talked into taking a look at rewriting the driver so it will initialize a sound card properly, but you would have to hit me over the head with a stick hard enough to make me forget that new 50x cdroms that work very nicely with FreeBSD are about $40.00. (and even then, if I did forget, I might forget something else useful, like how to breathe, or type, or communicate via talking ;) Josh "Legacy Man" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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