Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:45:10 -0700 (PDT) From: William A Gill <bill@duchess.wagill.com> To: Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1515: Unable to install 2.1.5 from CD-ROM. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960827122958.19395A-100000@duchess.wagill.com> In-Reply-To: <199608271124.HAA19186@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
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Hello Gene. Thank you for your reply. I am happy to see that someone else is acknowledging the importance of these Mitsumi drives; after all, they used to be the only viable game in town (and I was less than impressed by the FreeBSD organization's quick dismissal of the problem.). I later did manage to install 2.1.5 from the CD-ROM. The problem was one of the mcd0 driver not detecting the disc, although there was indeed a disc in the drive. Following is an excerpt from a second post which I did to the GNATS database describing how I got the drive to work. Thanks again. - Bill. When installing FreeBSD 2.1.5 from a Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drive, the installation script will NOT detect that there is a disc in the CD-ROM drive, and will NOT allow you to install from CD-ROM. One must follow the following procedure, *contrary* to the installation instructions; otherwise, the installation script will NOT detect that there is a disc in the CD-ROM drive: 1) Open the CD-ROM tray. 2) Place the FreeBSD 2.1.5 disc 1 on the tray. 3) LEAVE THE CD-ROM TRAY OPEN! 4) Insert the FreeBSD 2.1.5 boot floppy. 5) Re-boot the computer. 6) Allow the hardware probe to take place. 7) As soon as the hardware probe finds the mcd0 device, the CD-ROM drive tray will close. 8) The CD-ROM disc will be detected by the installation procedure, allowing the installation to come from CD-ROM. On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Gene Stark wrote: > > I can only conclude that the Mitsumi driver was broken in 2.1.5 then. > > I'm afraid there's nothing we can do in the short-term, and perhaps > > not even in the long term unless one of these rather ancient Mitsumi > > drives can be located and the bug found. :-( > > I have one of these drives (FX001D) that I am running with a system built > from June 26 sources. The drive works fine. I don't yet have the 2.1.5 > CD-ROM, so I can't say whether I can reproduce Bill's problem. If anything > was indeed broken, it had to be after June 26, or something in the > configuration on the 2.1.5 CD-ROM. > > I actually have a lab with about 40 of these "ancient" drives, so I have an > interest in seeing that they continue to work. You'll recall for a long > time that they were the only CD-ROM drive that *would* work under FreeBSD. > > - Gene Stark >
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