Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:10:22 -0400 From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@mcs.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie Alert - Kernel + PAS16/SCSI Controller Message-ID: <199910241210.HAA26803@Mailbox.mcs.net>
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That is really aggravating. Someone needs to update http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html#INSTALL-HW and put a little "*" beside the line "SoundBlaster SCSI and ProAudio Spectrum SCSI (cd)" to include "not in the latest release". I choose FreeBSD because it (as I was lead to believe) supported all of my hardware, what a big let down. Thank you for your time. On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 20:59:48 -0600 (MDT), Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >[ In the future, please keep your line lengths less than 80 characters ] > >Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote... >> Call me frustrated in the State of Insanity. >> >> >> Working with 3.3-RELEASE. Trying to configure the kernel for my PAS16 and its onboard SCSI controller that I intend to run my Plextor CDROM from. I am a >> bit frustrated at the documentation for this. Either that or I am just missing something here. I was told to refer to /i386/isa/sound/sound.doc. In this document >> it tells me to "Uncomment one or more of these device entries, depending on what type of sound card you have" and for my PAS16 I put into my kernel file >> (WEEDWHACKER) device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 6 I also added my device node as I was told to do on the freebsd.org pages. >> >> Is this correct? >> >> Now on to the SCSI controller part of my question. In my kernel file I have the following: >> >> #SCSI Controllers >> controller nca0 at isa? port 0x1f88 bio irq 10 (i also tried controller nca0 at isa? port 0x1f88 bio irq 10 vector ncaintr) > >The nca driver isn't supported in 3.0 and newer. (and isn't likely to be >supported unless someone with hardware decides to port the driver) Sorry. > >If you want to use your CDROM drive, you'll have to get a support SCSI >controller. Or you can go back to 2.2.8 -- the nca driver last worked in >that release. > > >Ken >-- >Kenneth Merry >ken@kdm.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Speed Kills - Use Windows! PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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