Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:14:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent help needed!! ATAPI driver won't recognize my CDROM Message-ID: <19980315131415.60363@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980308153217.9194A-100000@uniqsite.com>; from Tim Moony on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:47:27PM -0800 References: <19980309095323.18577@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980308153217.9194A-100000@uniqsite.com>
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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
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