From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 13:39:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16770 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16698 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff [206.173.119.90]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id QAA17502; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:39:24 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager.concentric.net [206.173.119.82]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.8.8) id QAA20732; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:39:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:39:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@voyager.cris.com To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > > hi, i was wondering why bsd doesnt support or detect my creative IDE cdrom > > (620E) but linux redhat 5.0 does? > > Because IDE CDROMs don't adhere to standards and are thus totally flakey? > > Try moving it to the slave position on the primary controller. That said, ARE there IDE CDROM's that properly adhere to standards? I am in the process of piecing together a box to run FreeBSD and while I would rahter run SCSI, IDE is WAY too economical at this point. I would GLADLY purchase an IDE CDROM that would actually WORK! =) Thanks! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message