From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 1: 3:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639ED37B405 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 01:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAC935N09688; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:03:05 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <XFMail.20011112100322.mj@isy.liu.se> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BEF81A1.BB991CE1@ru.ac.za> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:03:22 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: "James Stapley (Discus)" <fishwatch@ru.ac.za> Subject: RE: Old "Panasonic" CD-ROM not detected on install FreeBSD 4.4 - Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does this pertain to you? (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/hardware-i386.html) The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) ( cd(4)) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) ( matcd(4)) Sony proprietary interface (all models) ( scd(4)) ATAPI IDE interface ( acd(4)) If so, a guess would be to try to use the matcd-driver. Or take the disk out and insert it into another machine, install in that one and then put the disk back in the 486. /M On 12-Nov-2001 James Stapley (Discus) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.4 on an old machine I found in the > basement to act as a very basic webserver and for me to play around with > a unix like environment. (It's a Cyrix 486 clone with 32 megs of ram and > 500 odd megs HDD). > > The problem comes when I try to install FreeBSD; the floppies work fine > and do their thing up to a point, however, it is not detecting the > CD-ROM drive which is connected to a soundblaster 16 in the machine (I > checked it was working before fdisking the HDD to remove the DOS > partitions and it was). How can I force it to recognise the drive? > Getting it to install from a CD is somewhat tricky with no working CD > rom drive... It's definitely one of those panasonic type cd's and not an > IDE one. I think this machine is so archaic the bios probably doesn't > support EIDE devices (such as CD ROM's). Also, the IDE cable has only > one connector and there is only one IDE channel on the card. > > I couldn't find anything on this topic after numerous searches online. > > Many thanks for your help, > > James. > > -- > ****************************************** > * James Richard Stapley * > * JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, * > * Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, * > * South Africa * > * james@jamesstapley.com * > * cell:+27 (0)82 531 4099 * > * http://www.jamesstapley.com/ * > * ICQ UIN: 3439402 * > ****************************************** > Check this out: > http://fishwatch.tripod.com/ > Good for anyone in SA into fish/diving! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message