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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 -
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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.
> 
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