Date: Tue, 28 Nov 95 23:36 WET From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) To: Pafwl@aol.com, questions@freebsd.org, rakitt@abest.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Panasonic CD-ROM, [was re: Free BSD] Message-ID: <m0tKfBt-000CXEC@nemesis.lonestar.org>
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[0]This is my second E-Mail about his subject. I purchased FreeBSD thinking I [0]had a Sound blaster CD rom drive only to try to install it and found out I [0]had a Panasonic IDE CDROM drive that I know your literature says I cannot [0]use. I have been trying for 2 days to load from floppies but to no avail. Sorry, but both of your messages arrived within minutes of each other (28-Nov-95 22:17). (I was on vacation anyway.) Please use the "fast" address listed below for your replies. [0]Tonight I went out and purchased a Creative 2X CDROM drive ($69.95) and [0]connected it to my sound blaster card. It works fine. I ran the FreeBSD [0]Install program on the CDROM and this is what is says when the kernel boot is [0]looking for the cdrom.. [0]matcdo - Matsushita (Panasonic) CD Rom Driver by FDIV Version 1(16) 4-Apr-95 [0]matcdo at 0X250-0x253 in isa [0]matcd0: [' ] matcd1: [' ] matcd2: [' [0] ] matcd3: [' ] Please send me the Model number of the drive. That should be something like CR-562-xx or CR-563-xx or something like that. It is on a label on the top of the drive. Also send me the model number of the SoundBlaster card you have. That number is usually written in white ink in the ten-o-clock position of the card if you are looking at the side of the board with the parts on it and the edge connector is facing down. It should be something like CT-xxxx. For example, CT-1740. [0]Since I know that the card is at 240 and says the cdrom is at 250 when i boot [0]into DOS I assume the kernel is seeing the CDROM. If you "know" your SoundBlaster is at 0x240, then are you talking about the audio part of the board and probably NOT the CD-ROM part of the board. If the audio part is at 0x240, then the CD-ROM part of the board uses I/O ports 0x10 higher, which would be 0x250. The audio and CD-ROM sections are completely separate. This is documented, but I know you may not be able to reach the matcd man page at this time. Also, make sure you don't have the CD-ROM cable plugged-in upside down. The blank version strings make me suspect that is the case and you probably don't really have four drives. Simple test - once you have the I/O port set correctly, reboot the computer (SOFT REBOOT from keyboard) and when the drive is probed (after you messages about mcd0 and mcd1), the drive door should shut. If it doesn't, the hardware RESET signal didn't reach the drive and you may have cabling problems. Oh, it *is* a real Creative Labs Sound card isn't it, and not a clone? If it is a "clone", you need to get FreeBSD 2.1.0. [1]Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> also wrote: [1]I wish we had some way of registering WHO knows about which driver... [1]We just need to hope someone who has one of these or knows about that driver [1]happens to see your post.... [1]me, I run 100% SCSI. Let's try to help out the guy who already has the hardware first, rather than expect him/her to go buy more. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Fastest Route)| demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"A what?" ...decvax!fw.ast.com!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983
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