From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 6 02:43:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11851 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 02:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from surf.metro.net.au (surf.metro.net.au [203.63.212.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA11838 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 02:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panadol (ppp203.surf.net.au [203.18.228.203]) by surf.metro.net.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01824 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:41:15 +1000 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970806094335.0066d348@mail.surf.net.au> X-Sender: banka@mail.surf.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 19:43:35 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Banks Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To: info@freebsd.org From: Alex Banks i am trying to install freebsd 2.1 but i have a problem with freebsd not finding my mitsumi cd-rom ok here is the more in depth stuff cd-rom type: mitsumi hex speed firmware revision 1.00 i am running the cyrix 686 p120+100 cpu with a pentium mouther board, the mouther board has 2 on board ide controlers curently the hard disk and cd-rom are on diffrint controlers i would prefer it to stay this way the hard disk is on irq 14 and port 1f0 and the cd-rom is on irq 15 and port 170 my sound card is un supported (it is a ESS) when ever i setup cd-rom to be on irq 15 and port 170 it conflicts with the port controler i have also tryed to piggy back up the cd-rom to the hard disk but then the cd-rom conflicts with the hard disk i cant get away from the port conflicts. what can i do thanks alex banks (aka PaNaDoL ,aSpRiN) www.surf.net.au/~banka/nirvana