Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 11:16:59 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matcd on an SB16 Message-ID: <37862E8B.6C21684D@softweyr.com> References: <199907090328.MAA08098@gizmo.internode.com.au>
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Mark Newton wrote:
>
> One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing
> FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met with abysmal failure:
>
> $ Next came an install on my Pentium 60 (previously running Caldera-2.2)
> $ - A total disaster.... no way despite 12 attempts to install, could I
> $ get FreeBSD to actually initialise the sbpcd (freebsd calls it matcdc)
> $ despite changing IO's, entering the manual configuration option etc
> $ etc... it would not & could not, find the cdrom & so I had to abort the
> $ install every time!!
>
> Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone
> have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it?
Sorry, I have no help to offer, but I vaguely remember writing something
recently about support of bizarre hardware devices in Linux vs. FreeBSD.
An IDE CD-ROM is completely beyond his reach? Send me his address, I'll
go buy one of the cheapo USDrive 24x models they're selling around here
for $24 and mail it to him. It will, of course, cost him AU$40 to receive
it. ;^(
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com
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