From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 16:43:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA21331 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (root@admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA21318 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:43:37 -0800 (PST) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Received: from ux1.cyberenet.net by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #7) id m0vI2HC-000NzzC; Mon, 28 Oct 96 19:43 EST Received: from wb2oyc.ppp.cyberenet.net by ux1.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0vI2HA-0006FAC; Mon, 28 Oct 96 19:43 EST Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:26:07 -0500 (EST) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: cdrom Cc: Doug White , Andrzej Popielewicz , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 28-Oct-96 Doug White wrote: >>On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Andrzej Popielewicz wrote: > >It does; FreeBSD is rather picky about where it expects it. The 'hot >spot' is the slave drive on the primary controller. Try putting the CDROm >there. > Doug, I've seen this recommendation many times on the list, and just wanted to let you know that I have my IDE CDROM on the secondary port, and it is the only device on that controller! Works fine. I'm using a DTC 2278E and the CD is a Mitsumi. Am I just lucky enough to have a combination that works? Paul ---------------------------------- E-Mail: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Date: 10/28/96 Time: 23:26:09 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------