From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 18:44:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23270 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 18:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23211 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 18:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA05825; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:14:16 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA20498; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:14:16 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980315131415.60363@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:14:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Tim Moony Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent help needed!! ATAPI driver won't recognize my CDROM References: <19980309095323.18577@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Moony on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:47:27PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 March 1998 at 21:47:27 -0800, Tim Moony wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> >> That's about 250 MB. You need to completely rebuild the system. > > I believe that approach will demote my system from 2.2-stable to > 2.2.whatever-current. Not quite. You'd promote it, if that's the word, to 3.0-CURRENT. > I checked the mailing list and some said their GoldStar worked with > 2.2.x and some said otherwise. This would suggest that -CURRENT is overkill > I had been using Matcd driver until I inherited a 85% new system from a > friend (with another 6X Goldstar CDROM -- I had one before which never > worked under 2.1.5). > > I am not sure if the drive is PNP or non-PNP. Anyways, I was just > guessing -current provides newer drivers. That's true enough. But it's guesswork :-) > Just curious about incorperating new drivers into existing code: how'd you > guys do it without a patch code? I mean, I would assume many files are > involved (in addition to atapi.c, atapi.h, wcd.c, etc.) In fact, an individual driver normally has only two or three files. Typically, you put it in the source tree in a directory appropriate for the kind of hardware (pci/, i386/isa, etc), and add entries in i386/conf/files saying what drivers it's needed for. Take a look at the places and you might get the idea; unfortunately, I can't give you a good pointer at the moment. There might be something in the handbook. If all that doesn't help, contact Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org), who is handling CD problems. He might have some suggestions. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message