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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Luis-Felipe Lopez Pellicena <a90d903@ibm.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Requesting help about FREEBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728181955.381U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31EA899D.340D@ibm.net>

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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Luis-Felipe Lopez Pellicena wrote:

> 	When attempting to install the last release of FreeBSD the 
> installation kernel refused to recognize my old single speed Mitsumi 
> CDROM drive (configured with the factory defaults, that's it, I/O port = 
> 0x300, DRQ=5, IRQ=10) installed in my Foxen 30 MHz (486WB OPTI system).

Did you configure the 'mcd0' device in -c?  

> 	I suspect that there are some bus timing problems, since Linux 
> runs smoothly with the above configuration and FreeBSD's device probing 
> reports of a "timeout getting status" when looking for the mcd0 and mcd1 
> devices. Of course, I made sure that there were no hardware conflicts.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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