Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:39:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980506163705.1658E-100000@voyager.cris.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506110938.10587N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > > hi, i was wondering why bsd doesnt support or detect my creative IDE cdrom > > (620E) but linux redhat 5.0 does? > > Because IDE CDROMs don't adhere to standards and are thus totally flakey? > > Try moving it to the slave position on the primary controller. That said, ARE there IDE CDROM's that properly adhere to standards? I am in the process of piecing together a box to run FreeBSD and while I would rahter run SCSI, IDE is WAY too economical at this point. I would GLADLY purchase an IDE CDROM that would actually WORK! =) Thanks! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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