Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:51:38 -0700 (PDT) From: David Babler <root@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Future Domain TMC-840 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960524162417.156A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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In an attempt to utilize the bits and pieces of hardware I have laying around, I am trying to make an old Future Domain 840 controller read an old, slow CD-ROM drive. My intent is to at least have access to the live filesystem CD so I can upgrade my hand-installed 2.0.5 setup to 2.1. I intend to upgrade the hardware later, but for now it'd be very nice if I could get i working. My hardware is a 486DX2-66 with 16MB of RAM, Maxtor 505MB IDE drive, Intel EtherExpress 16 NIC (irq 10) and now the TMC-840. I remember reading that the Future Domain devices were supported, but the current hardware FAQ doesn't mention that at all, so I poked around in the driver source until I found it was in the Seagate driver. Booting the generic kernel, it recognizes the controller but doesn't find devices. The driver settings are for irq 5 and iomem 0xc8000 - confirmed by the jumper settings. I've tried two (old & cheap) drives I have around: an NEC model 36 and a Denon DRD-253. The Denon makes it loop forever displaying an unknown SCSI bus state and the NEC gives me: sea0: type Seagate ST01/ST02 sea0: waiting for scsi devices to settle sea: arbitration timeout (repeated 30-50 times) Is there something I've missed, or will I have to buy a new controller and/or CD-ROM drive? Both CD-ROM drives are known to be good, and the Future Domain used to run the Denon drive. Does this look like a controller problem or a drive problem? TIA. -Dave
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