Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:54:31 -0400 From: Dan Flemming <danflemming@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> Subject: Re: matcd - how to make it work Message-ID: <3982D408.47ABE6F@mac.com> References: <86snsutih9.fsf@dumpster.io.com> <3981A4A5.641D9C8@mac.com> <00db01bff90a$fa85dfd0$95440ace@mark8>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > 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 have a generic interface on mine, too. > 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 ;) Well, I spent a total of $80 Canadian on my BSD box, so a $40 US CDROM would have been a major imposition :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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