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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:26:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Andrzej Popielewicz <ap1@poczta.com>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cdrom
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961028122536.1013Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BBC3F8.A4CC9FC0@ppp-cen51.poznan.tpnet.pl>

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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Andrzej Popielewicz wrote:

> I have problems in installing FreeBsd 2.1.5, because generic kernel on
> boot.flp does not support IDE ATAPI Cdrom and seems to have problems
> with EIDE Western Digital drive. 

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.

> Motherboard PCI SOYO 27B2, very good
> board, Win95 does not hang, DOS or Linux RedHat Picasso(kernel 2.0.0)
> have no problems.I suggest to prepare more general generic kernel.

Can you be more specific about the problems you're having with the disk?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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