Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:37:47 EAT From: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> To: cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au (Carey Nairn) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: matcd driver in 2.0.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <199508250350.UAA21393@freefall.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950822000714.9005B-100000@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au>; from "Carey Nairn" at Aug 22, 95 12:13 (midnight)
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> Hi
>
> I tried to boot off the 2.0.5 boot floppy and couldn't get past the stage
> where the matcd controller was probed. The message I got was
>
> matcd0: get_stat: after reading status byte, bus didn't go idle ff f 230
>
> I have a 100% compatible (as far as I know) sound blaster card and a
> creative quad speed IDE CD ROM. The card is a Vibra 16 (with Creative
> Technology printed on the card). I would really like to be able to get
> this CD ROM going as I intend to get a subscription for the BSD CD's if
> it works.
>
> Any help with this would be great...
>
What I have done with my matcd was : borrowing a SCSI CD-ROM and a SCSI card,
installing FreeBSD 2.05R, grabbing the new matcd driver from -current,
recompiling a new kernel.
Apparently the 2.05R driver doesn't like your interface or CD driver, just
as my situation here.
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Yen-Wei Liu
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