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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:30:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tyler Spivey <tyler@wapvi.bc.ca>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sony cdu
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006120729250.32127-100000@viper.wapvi.bc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <39445F06.D9F746A4@3-cities.com>

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i never saw a single thing about a cdrom.
i dont know the port/irq/drq/flags of my sound card.. i
left the port, used userconfig to set irq 5 drq 1 flags 15.. anyone
know the default port? these kernels are so hard!


On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Kent Stewart wrote:

> 
> 
> Tyler Spivey wrote:
> > 
> > what are the ata lines i need?
> > i have a 2x cdrom drive.
> 
> You may have a scd CDROM. 
> 
> Have you ever looked inside or had someone look inside your computer
> to see where the CDROM is hooked up? The SoundBlaster cards have a
> connector on the end of the card that would be connected to your
> cdrom. This is where your cdrom would be connected if it is a scd.
> 
> I have a NEC downstairs but I don't have any idea how I would hook it
> up in FreeBSD. That is where the output from "dmesg" comes in. It will
> tell you if it detects the CDROM. You can also do something like 
> 
> "dmesg > cdrom.txt" 
> 
> and then include cdrom.txt in your email. That will let someone see if
> you need to mount a different device when you want to use it.
> 
> If it is really an atapi cdrom, and I don't think it is at this point,
> you have to use some of
> 
> #
> # The 'ATA' driver supports all ATA and ATAPI devices.
> # It can reuse the majors of wd.c for booting purposes.
> # You only need one "device ata" for it to find all
> # PCI ATA/ATAPI devices on modern machines.
> device          ata
> device          atadisk         # ATA disk drives
> device          atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
> 
> #The folliwing options are valid on the ATA driver:
> #
> # ATA_STATIC_ID:        controller numbering is static (like the old
> driver)
> #                       else the device numbers are dynamically
> allocated.
> # ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA: enable DMA on ATAPI device, since many ATAPI
> devices
> #                       claim to support DMA but doesn't actually
> work, this
> #                       is not enabled as default.
> 
> options         ATA_STATIC_ID
> #options         ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA
> 
> #
> # For older non-PCI systems, these are the lines to use:
> #device         ata0    at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
> #device         ata1    at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
> 
> 
> BTW, most of the SoundBlaster-16's are hooked up at 
> device          sbc0    at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15
> 
> Kent
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > Tyler Spivey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > why wont:
> > > > device scd
> > >
> > > Is the Sony CDROM hooked up to your SoundBlaster because if it isn't
> > > then you don't use the scd driver. If it is a Sony IDE, you have to
> > > use an ATAPI driver. Most scd CDROM were like 1x or 2x, which is
> > > really slow.
> > >
> > > > work to find my sony? and:
> > > > device pcm
> > > > device sbc0 at isa? won't detect my sb16.. whats wrong
> > >
> > > Crist answered this but you also need to be showing us your
> > > SoundBlaster lines from a dmesg and the corresponding lines from your
> > > kernel. Reply to one topic because then we don't have to keep
> > > following you around.
> > >
> > > Kent
> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
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