Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 06:28:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi ATAPI CD-ROM + big disks Message-ID: <199606091028.GAA15746@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199606082025.NAA19286@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Jun 8, 96 01:24:05 pm
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> > > >> I have just got a Hitachi ATAPI CD-rom - on trial - if it doesn't work I can > [...] > > >My experience is that you need the CD-ROM as master. on the secondary > >controller I have a Mitsumi and my freebsd just finds it if I have it > >as master. I don't know why. I haven't had a look at the code. > > I know why: because IDE sucks. It's a hackish, nightmarish > abomination. As can be illustrated by the problems being discussed > here. I have heard of this same behavior (some drive needs to be > master or won't work) under many different OSs -- it's probably not a > FreeBSD-specific problem. I, for one, have never had a problem installing from the 2.1 ATAPI disk... I've done it on an Aptiva, a Compaq, and a Thinkpad -- and Red Hat Linux wouldn't load from the CD on the Thinkpad 365 (Slackware would). I am running SCSI on my main box -- but, from my personal experience, I wouldn't discourage ATAPI cd use. My spare 386 box is soon going to have one of em for FreeBSD development use. Bill
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