Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The matcd driver was for an old non-standard device once produced by > Matsushita. Certainly if you're using a recently produced CD drive, > it will be a standard ATAPI or SCSI device and it should be recognised > automatically by the install process. No special driver configuration > required. > > As Michael Joyner said in another response, the matcd driver has been > dropped from 4.7-RELEASE onwards: the device is archaic and rarely > used nowadays.
Unfortunately, the original poster *was* using such a device (CR-563). The release notes for 4.7 seem to erroneously still claim support for the driver. Oops. > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:09:51PM -0800, Safman wrote: > > > I am a new user to FreeBSD and am trying to install it for the first > > time. I am installing on a hard disk with two partitions: One already > > has Windows, the other will soon have FreeBSD. > > > > I want to install FreeBSD using CD's, but it doesn't seem to recognize > > my CD drive. I am installing FreeBSD 4.7, and according to > > Hardware.txt, my CD-ROM drive is supported (Matsushita/Panasonic > > CR-563). > > > > I have tried using CLI configuration mode to ">enable matcd0" and got > > the following response: > > No such device: matcd0 > > Invalid command or syntax > > > > I know that the CD-ROM drive itself is working because it works fine > > when I boot up Windows. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for the help... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
