From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 11 07:41:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA26868 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inreach.com (mail.inreach.com [205.138.224.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26858; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp8073.la.inreach.net (ppp8073.la.inreach.net [199.107.161.73]) by mail.inreach.com (8.8.3/8.7.1) with SMTP id HAA19368; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.1, PAO 970331, and New Media Toast'n'Jam (SCSI portion): possible? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:37:22 GMT Organization: InReach Internet Communications Reply-To: dburr@POBoxes.com Message-ID: <339fb53f.475053@news.inreach.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/32.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently ordered FreeBSD 2.2.1 from Walnut Creek, because I really wanted to get back into running , tweaking, and playing around with UNIX. But I'm having a bit of a problem here. First, my hardware configuration: Toshiba Satellite 105CS 810 MB internal HD (do not want to use - see below) Intel PCMCIA controller PCMCIA Cards: New Media Toast'n'Jam, USRobotics Sportster 33.6 Peripherals hanging off SCSI card: Iomega Jaz 1GB cartridge drive, NEC 8x CD-ROM drive Since I have no space left on my internal drive, and still need to access Win95 and use my applications, I want to install FreeBSD on its own 1 GB Jaz cartridge. But the standard FreeBSD distribution does not support PCMCIA at all -- it did not detect any of my PCMCIA devices, etc. So, after searching around the web a while, I found the PAO package (version 970331), at: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ I read that multifunction cards are NOT supported, and yes, the Toast'n'Jam card is a combination SCSI and sound card. But someone told me that the SCSI portion of the Toast'n'Jam is identical to a New Media Bus Toaster, which *is* a supported card under PAO, so I figured "there's nothing to lose, let's try it, what the hell" I rawrite'd this boot image and loaded it. Sure enough, it displayed messages about probing PCMCIA sockets, etc. It even went so far as to say that my Toast'n'Jam was assigned the device aic0. However, none of the drives attached to it showed up! I discovered this when trying to install from the CD-ROM drive, and it said "no CD-ROM detected!" The Toast'n'Jam uses the same AIC controller as the Adaptec APA-1460, which *is* supported by PAO (I borrowed one that belongs to a friend, and it worked fine). I know this for two reasons: (1) PAO itself identified it as an aic0, and (2) because these two cards use the exact same driver (sparrow.mpd) under Win95. None of the debug messages on VTY2 (or any other VTY, for that matter) provided any useful information. No blatant error messages, etc. If someone can help me out here, that would be very much appreciated. If there is some configuration tweaking that I can try. Or, if this card is definitely NOT supported, please tell me, so that I can quit beating my head against the wall on this one. Please respond by e-mail if possible. Thank you! -- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW Home Page: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455| right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 564-1871 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT.