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Date:      Mon, 11 May 1998 13:27:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@mercury.jorsm.com>
To:        Matthew Hagerty <wpub1@net-link.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.6-RELEASE CD-ROM problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980511132600.8314B-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980511121941.00777048@smtp.net-link.net>

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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Matthew Hagerty wrote:

> The interface is a proprietary Sony (8 bit ISA card).  Two jumpers to set
> the address 0x250 or 0x260.  I have tried with the disk in at power-up,
> during boot, just before selecting the media, and after selecting the
> media.  Does not seem to make any difference.  The kernel finds the drive
> okay during device probing.  I have tried both addresses and different ISA
> slots.  The funny thing is that this same card and CDROM worked fine with
> FreeBSD 2.0.1 thru 2.2.5.  I do have scd0 in the kernel.
> 
> I did manage to install via FTP.  I then tried to mount the CDROM with:
> 
> mount /cdrom
> 
> But there was not a /cdrom directory like there has always been (I don't
> ever recall having to create this directory on any of my other FreeBSD
> systems.)  So I created the /cdrom and tried again and got a device does
> not exist error.  So I tried:
> 
> mount /cdrom /dev/scd0a

mount /dev/scd0a /cdrom

> 
> and I got the 'media looks like an audio cd' error.
> 
> Any other suggestions?  Did this driver break between 2.2.5 and 2.2.6?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
> 


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