Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:42:28 -0500 (EST) From: Dennis Tenn <dstenn@fanfic.org> To: Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting a matcdc0 to detect Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204064106.322G-100000@fanfic.org> In-Reply-To: <34D80E9C.1F7847E0@ameritech.net>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Adam McDougall wrote:
| Hello, someone gave me a 4x cdrom with a panasonic interface for free,
| and my sb16 model CT2300(something) has a panasonic connector, so I went
| about trying to get it to work. so far, no luck. I have no idea what
| port the panasonic connector is supposed to use, and my cdrom is a Teac
| 4x model CD55A. According to the price tag, someone payed $209 for it
| way back when :)
|
| Strange thing is, is during when the kernel probes for it, the drive's
| light comes on, and it seems to try to make activity, but still doesnt
| detect. Someone clued me in that the port may be 0x340 and I have tried
| that but still no go. I also tried isa? port? in the kernel conf file
| but it still doesnt probe. there are four jumpers on the cdrom, and I
| belueve they are for a device id of some kind. appearently ther
| panasonic interface allowed daisy chaining of up to 4 devices. the
| jumper was on #2 when I got it, and I have tried with all four, one at a
| time. I also have matcdc0 thru 3 in the conf file just incase.
|
| A standard 40 pin ide cable is what im using to connect it to the
| panasonic interface on my sb16.
|
| Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
If the soundcard is your check the manual and see what port is actually
being used. You may need to use a DOS utility to detect/set the port
address.
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