>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:57:45 +0700 (JVT)
>From: heru@pentium.as.bppt.go.id (Superuser)

>Actualy when the PC booting, it can't find the cd drive. The booting
>message (also dmesg command) printed the message like this :
>mcd0: timeout in getresult 
>
>I use the MKEP Panasonic Matsushita CDROM. And I configured it in kernel
>configuration files as follow :
>mcd0    at isa? port 0x320 irq 10       

The reason you see this message is because the mcd driver is for
Mitsumi drives, not Panasonic/Matsushita drives.

>Any opinion for this problem ?

Check out FreeBSD's Matsushita driver (matcd).

>About my third question.
>
>>  I can't print trough my lpt0. (maybe) it cause of there is no lpt0
>>  detected when pc is booting. I checked the kernel configuretion file,
>>  the lpt0 is already defined in this file. What can I do to fix it ?   

>Actualy I checked again the BIOS setup. The port number & IRQ that BIOS use 
>is same with the kernel configuration file. But there is something strange
>in my PC. The BIOS setup say the port & IRQ number for the lpt0 is 378H and 7
>but when I save it and reset the PC again, no lpt0 was detected by bios.
>I have no problem with lpt0 if I run my window 95 to operate my PC. But I still
>have problem to use lpt0 in netbsd1.2

What I usually do in cases like this is to add debugging printf()s to
the driver's probe routine until I find out why it's failing.
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