Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 11:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Erik A. Pearson" <epearson@olac.berkeley.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 & mitsumi lu002 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950509105408.3861B-100000@olac> In-Reply-To: <9505091738.AA08176@cs.weber.edu>
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On Tue, 9 May 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > However, last night I was poking around the BSD Web Page for information > > on this problem, and ran into your suggestion, as put forth in the usenet > > archives by Sean Kelly (12/28/94). However, after trying this there was no > > discernable improvement -- I tried all available irqs on the card with the > > matching irq on the card -- the io address is fine too since the probe > > reveals the "version information is 0 M 2" etc. message. > > > > Some of the responses to the usenet threads indicated that this solution > > may not work. Have you found that this actually works? Are there other > > settings on the card or driver that should be changed? Should the DMA > > channel on the card be set to 1, 3, or none? > > I didn't realize from your message that this was an EIDE CDROM drive. Oops, sorry if I gave the wrong impression, it is the lu002 with an 8-bit dedicated interface card, w/ jumpers for i/o address, irq, and DMA channel. The unit was sold as a BMR 6800 (or something like that). > Soren is currently working on a driver for the 2.1 release (it may be > in 2.0.5 if he tries to suprise people). IDE CDROM drives are really > SCSI drives with a slow serial interface for shoving SCSI commands down, > and should be fairly easy to support, but might require some SCSI > hacking as well to allow code reuse. I'd expect that that's why the > driver isn't finished yet. > > You *can* install by copying the files to your DOS partition and > then mounting the DOS partition from BSD to run the install. You will > have a slight problem with X this way because of the long names they > used. This is fixable using the checksum file as a renaming guide > (after you copy the files from the DOS to the BSD file system). Thanks. I may try this, although I don't really have much space on the HD to set up a large enough DOS partition. I suppose could also install over the net, but I bought the CDROM to save the hassle of tearing apart a computer at work to install the drive -- and don't know what problems will ensue from installing on one machine and then switching the drive to another (tried it once with a SNAP, and it didn't quite work). If Sean can get the fixed boot.flp available, that might just solve the problem. Otherwise, it may be off the the store for a little bit of shopping (oh, noooooooooo). Erik Pearson
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