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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 96 20:13 WET
From:      uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV)
To:        dbradt@ford.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   re: CD-ROM detection problems [Was:no subject]
Message-ID:  <m0tjzO0-000CCzC@nemesis.lonestar.org>

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[0]dbradt@ford.com (Dennis Bradt (R)) writes on one long long line:
[0]Also I need to know how I can get the system to recognize the cdrom
[0]which I have installed. I have tried everything except for successfully
[0]compiling the kernel. My cdrom is a soundblaster situated on a secondary
[0]IDE interface card. There is no setting on the card itself for making it
[0]a master rather than slave drive. The port at which it is located is
[0]0x250. In order to give it this port address I gave the parameter at boot
[0]
[0]boot: -c
[0]
[0]and then I typed visual and inserted the port address into the matcd0
[0]device. The cdrom is a 2x speed cdrom. 
[0]...
[0]SoundBlaster 2x CD on IDE interface card

The matcd driver is NOT for IDE drives.  You need to be changing settings
on the ATAPI CD-ROM driver, wcd.   The HARDWARE.TXT and RELEASE.TXT
(plus the matcd.4 man page) discuss this.

If the drive is connected to a connector that says "Creative/Panasonic",
then you would use the matcd driver.

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