From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 20:50:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA21409 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 20:50:29 -0700 Received: from lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA21393 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 20:50:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199508250350.UAA21393@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Received: by lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA04275; Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:37:47 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: Re: matcd driver in 2.0.5-RELEASE To: cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au (Carey Nairn) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:37:47 EAT Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Carey Nairn" at Aug 22, 95 12:13 (midnight) Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444