From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 16 22:09:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20060 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA20055 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@sag.space.lockheed.com) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA17773; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:09:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:09:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: I have a CD-rom! Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I just shopped around Fry's today and found myself a PCCARD-based cdrom. My laptop supplier just spent two months getting me *another* printer-port based unit! I was pretty annoyed so I just bought the thing myself. I have a Sony DISCman that comes with the Adaptec SCSI card, $300US. The scsi card appealed to me is mostly why I went with this particular unit. The downslide is it's not powered through the pccard port, and I'm waffling on that issue. I haven't yet decided if that's an important selling point or not. (Mostly dependent on how the boss decides to use this...if it sits on his desk at work all the time, no prob. If he decides suddenly to take it everywhere, well, I'll have to think about it.) So anyway, if anyone has an opinion here I'd like to hear it. As an aside, I can't get it to allocate a driver. The PCCARD entry is straight out of the sample pccard list: # Adaptec SlimSCSI card "Adaptec, Inc." "APA-1460 SCSI Host " config 0x9 "aic0" 10 insert echo Adaptec Slim SCSI inserted remove echo Adaptec Slim SCSI removed At the moment, it's the only card in the system, but IRQ 10 is also used by the modem. I'm safe there -- it's one of those @#%^! x-jack modems so you can't have both plugged in very well at the same time. :-/ The error I get is: driver allocation failed for Adaptec, Inc. Oho, but I've got it in my kernel: controller aic0 at isa? port 0x340 bio irq 11 vector aicintr And the associated dmesg: aic0 not found at 0x340 I'm still playing, but if there's a short and sweet answer to this I'd love to hear it. (Also if I'm making a mistake with this model that'd be good too.) Thanks! Brian