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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 18:50:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Christopher J Michaels <cjm2@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM
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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Christopher J Michaels wrote:

> Hi,
>   When I first tried installing FreeBSD (I did it several times before I 
> got it right)I was able to use my cd-rom.  Now in this current 
> insatallation I am unable to use it.
>   On boot, matcd0c & matcd0 seem to load & see my cd-rom ok.  I tried 
> running 'sh MAKEDEV matcd0' and 'sh MAKEDEV local matcd0' I'm out of 
> ideas.  Either it gives me '/dev/rmatcd0c: Permission denied' or it will 
> give me errors saying it could not open the drive and was unable to 
> retrieve the disk size.

Check 'dmesg' and make sure matcd0 is probing properly.

You may have failed to update the irq and port settings.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major