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From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
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Subject: Re: Hitachi ATAPI CD-ROM + big disks
To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 06:28:46 -0400 (EDT)
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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