From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 15:34:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA02898 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netsurf.org (renaud@olympe.netsurf.org [206.184.149.194] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA02884 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from renaud@localhost) by netsurf.org (8.8.5/NetSurf9512) id PAA03671 for freebsd-install@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:58:46 -0700 From: Renaud.Waldura@netsurf.org Message-Id: <199709102258.PAA03671@netsurf.org> Subject: Success Story (Matshita CR-585) To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Reply-to: Renaud Waldura Organization: NetSurf, California X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (This message for archival purposes) (applies to FreeBSD 2.2.2) My computer includes a Matshita (Matsushita?) CR-585 CD-ROM. Reading the docs, I first believed I was supposed to use the "matcd" controller. Wrong! A dozen of reboots later, I finally understood that this drive is actually an IDE device, which needs the "wdc" controller and _not_ the "matcd". So the right config incantations in the kernel boot file /sys/i386/conf/XXX are: controller isa0 # my IDE controller is on the ISA bus, see below controller wdc0 at isa? port ... #disk wd0 at wcd0 drive 0 # if you also have an IDE hard disk option ATAPI option ATAPI_STATIC device wcd0 # the damn CD-ROM And forget about the "matcd" controller. Hope this helps someone one day, -- Renaud Waldura http://www.netsurf.org/~renaud/