On Mon, 3 Feb 1997 weich3@earthlink.net wrote:

.. Well, now that NetBSD is booting on my Q800, maybe someone can answer a
.. CD-ROM question. I saw a post (not sure when) that stated that the
.. installer (through build devices command) will create the devices for hard
.. disks and CD's. The post also said that older versions of the installer
.. would not create the devices correctly. I used installer 1.1c and when I
.. built the devices no CD devices were created. Then if I leave the CD drive
.. on when I boot BSD, I get parity errors from the drive and BSD hangs, so I
.. must restart and shut off the CD drive. I realize that this is not that big
.. a deal, but it made me wonder. It's a NEC CDR-210 (yes, I know, old), if
.. that makes a difference. Thanks in advance for any help. One other thing
.. about the 1.1c installer, the fstab that was created was wrong as well, it
.. used sd0a and sd0b instead of sd2a and sd2b, just thought I'd mention it.

To build the cd entries in /dev, you may do something like

    cd /dev
    sh MAKEDEV cd0

after you have booted NetBSD and remounted / with read-write access.



I have a NEC CDR-210 (yes, I think that it is this model, and yes: it is
quite old). I use with a PC and a Adaptec 1515 SCSI controller. On the
Adaptec, i had to disable parity checking to use the Nec drive. This
is documented in the Adaptec documentation.

Sorry, I don't recall whether or not I got it to work with NetBSD/mac68k,
but if there is no way to disable parity checking, you may not be able
to use this drive. Sorry again, that I cannot solve your problem, but
parity is a problem with this drive.

- Erik Bertelsen