From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 20 14:18:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA13920 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:18:21 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA13822 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:17:11 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20679; Mon, 20 Feb 95 23:16:10 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (XAA00300); Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:18:18 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199502202218.XAA00300@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Ask for help to FreeBSD team. To: A.Cartelli@agora.stm.it Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:18:17 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9502202218.aa14024@agora.stm.it> from "A.Cartelli@agora.stm.it" at Feb 20, 95 10:17:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 805 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I did not succeed in finding a CD-Rom drive Mitsumi with its controller. > I've a PC 486DX2 based with 16 Mbytes of ram and bus vesa; i've just Do you mean FreeBSD didn't find a Mitsumi CDROM drive on the startup ? Can you tell us more at which addresses it is ? > arrived at the installation of the Operating System. > Do you think that I can use a SCSI controller (Adaptec 154x series) and a > CD-Rom SCSI for the installation and use? Yes, this should work fine with most SCSI CDROM's. Some give troubles like CDROM drives from SUN or SGI that lie and try to tell the system it is a harddisk :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe