Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:55:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Proprietary CDROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990616145456.6587N-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906161735360.41119-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck, the 'scd' driver supported old sony drives.. On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > I originally sent this to 'questions,' but I believe I have exhausted > > potential leads there, so I am trying this audience. > > > > I am bringing back into service two 486DXs that have been pushed out > > of desktop use by newer machines. Both of these have Sony CDROMs with > > the proprietary interface. On one, I clobbered the old M$ OS without > > checking how devices were configured. I learned my lesson and checked > > on the second beforehand. > > > > I have been unable to 'find' the CDROM on the first machine. The > > GENERIC default is to 0x230, but that does not work. The second > > machine has the CDROM at 0x340 (the value I looked up before I messed > > with it), and it seems to work fine. I've tried a variety of settings > > and moved jumpers around, but no luck with such a Monte Carlo > > approach. > > > > The card for the CDROM has four sets of jumpers on it (JP1-JP4). I was > > told by a very helpful person on -questions that JP4 specified the > > port address. He said the unjumpered value was 0x300, and one can > > then set the address 0x300 to 0x3f0. However, the kernel default for > > these devices is 0x230, outside of that range. In addition, the > > machine working at 0x340 is unjumpered[0]. > > > > Does anyone have experience with these things? Anyone have a pointer > > to some documentation about these drives (the Sony website has > > DOS/Windoze drivers, no docs about jumpers I could find)? BTW, the > > card attached to the problem machine is labeled COR334. > > > > Thanks for help or pointers in the right direction. > > > > [0] The four jumpers on each card were configured exactly > > alike. Noting set except for position 2 on JP1 (which my helper told > > me was the DMA jumper). > > I didn't think that we even supported the old Sony proprietary cards. > The only way I was aware, to get the old Sony's to work (if they didn't > have either the SCSI or ide interfaces, mind) was to get an old > soundblaster card (or most of the clones( which had the interface on > it), and that would work fine. > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. > (301) 220-2114 | > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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