Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:08:58 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: "James Stapley (Discus)" <fishwatch@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old "Panasonic" CD-ROM not detected on install FreeBSD 4.4 - Help please! =) Message-ID: <20011112070858.F723@twincat.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <3BEF81A1.BB991CE1@ru.ac.za>; from fishwatch@ru.ac.za on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:00:33AM %2B0200 References: <3BEF81A1.BB991CE1@ru.ac.za>
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:00:33AM +0200, James Stapley (Discus) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.4 on an old machine I found in the > basement to act as a very basic webserver and for me to play around with > a unix like environment. (It's a Cyrix 486 clone with 32 megs of ram and > 500 odd megs HDD). > > The problem comes when I try to install FreeBSD; the floppies work fine > and do their thing up to a point, however, it is not detecting the > CD-ROM drive which is connected to a soundblaster 16 in the machine (I > checked it was working before fdisking the HDD to remove the DOS > partitions and it was). How can I force it to recognise the drive? > Getting it to install from a CD is somewhat tricky with no working CD > rom drive... It's definitely one of those panasonic type cd's and not an > IDE one. I think this machine is so archaic the bios probably doesn't > support EIDE devices (such as CD ROM's). Also, the IDE cable has only > one connector and there is only one IDE channel on the card. > > I couldn't find anything on this topic after numerous searches online. > > Many thanks for your help, > > James. This is almost certainly a Matsushita CR-563b 2x proprietary drive. I have had extensive experience with these things. The FreeBSD driver matcd does work with these drives, but it usually will not initialize the controller on a soundblaster correctly. You either need just the stand alone controller for the drive which is rare and hard to come by, or I have had some luck by booting the machine into dos and letting the dos drivers initialize the board, and then do a soft reboot. I believe someone else mentioned installing the drive on a different machine and then installing FreeBSD on it, and then transfering it back to the original machine. This will work fine, too, as FreeBSD does not create a suicide pact with the hardware ala windows. Josh > > -- > ****************************************** > * James Richard Stapley * > * JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, * > * Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, * > * South Africa * > * james@jamesstapley.com * > * cell:+27 (0)82 531 4099 * > * http://www.jamesstapley.com/ * > * ICQ UIN: 3439402 * > ****************************************** > Check this out: > http://fishwatch.tripod.com/ > Good for anyone in SA into fish/diving! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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