Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:15:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Finding scd0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906151115100.2596-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906120256.WAA23626@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > I have two old 486DXs that I have 'appropriated' at my office, where > no one wants to have their screensavers running on anything less than > a 500MHz PIII. Both have Sony CDROMs (and one has a 5.25" floppy > drive! =). However, I only have 'found' the drive on one. > > On the first, I recklessly clobbered the old M$ OS without checking > all of the hardware configurations. Now I cannot find the Sony > CDROM. If I boot looking at the default 0x230, nothing. If I boot at > 0x340, which is where I found it on the other machine (by looking it > up in Winbloze first), still nothing. > > How can I determine the I/O address for this CDROM? Is it IDE or proprietary? If it's attached to a proprietary card, the address is usually set by jumpers on the card. Hope you can work around Y2K on that thing or you're going to have a big doorstop in 6 months :-) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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