Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:10:36 -0700 From: "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net> To: "James Stapley (Discus)" <fishwatch@ru.ac.za>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Old "Panasonic" CD-ROM not detected on install FreeBSD 4.4 - Help please! =) Message-ID: <NABBJOOEOFODEALNMJAJEEMHFBAA.B-Morgan@concentric.net> In-Reply-To: <3BEF81A1.BB991CE1@ru.ac.za>
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I had a similar situation. If your Soundblaster is a PNP version like mine, I had a heck of a time getting the card initialized. Using a DOS boot first to set the card addresses and then changing the port address of the secondary IDE when FreeBSD boots I was able to see the CD with FreeBSD. Since my CD was an IDE version, I finally "solved" the problem by going to my local PC "junkyard" and buying an ISA IDE board ($10) to hang the CDROM on. Brad -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of James Stapley (Discus) Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:01 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Old "Panasonic" CD-ROM not detected on install FreeBSD 4.4 - Help please! =) 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. -- ****************************************** * 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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