From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 10:07:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA02751 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:07:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02746 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA04983; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:07:36 -0800 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:07:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Andrzej M. J." cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI CDROM In-Reply-To: <199603071938.MAA28325@xmission.xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Andrzej M. J. wrote: > I did buy a few days ago FreeBSD 2.1 from WALNUT CREEK. > When I try to install it, I can see the kernel recognize my secondary > EIDE controler, where is connected my CDROM ("NEC MultiSpin 4v" as > master) but it can't recognize my CDROM drive (yes, CD is inside the > drive). The CD drive work propertly with LINUX, WIN-NT, WIN-95 and > DOS. Well, that's because those OSs have better ATAPI support than FreeBSD does. :) Did you use the atapi.flp image when building the boot floppy? That has the IDE CDROM drivers configured. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major