Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 18:43:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI (yet again) Message-ID: <199805120143.SAA00728@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 12:27:38 CDT." <3557350A.6728D695@acm.org>
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> OK, I took the CDs and a boot floppy (all 2.2.5) to my friends' house to > install FreeBSD on their brand new Dell box. > > As it turns out they have a 6.4G as primary master and an ATAPI CD-ROM > device as secondary master. There is also an ATAPI ZIP in it (the BIOS > didn't report its location). The wcd0 probe was hanging quite a bit and > in the end the CD-ROM wasn't recognized. > > Since I can't just rejumper and rewire their brand new computer without > them throwing me out, I'm stuck. They'd like FreeBSD, but they don't > understand the benefits, yet, so at this point this is a very hard > sell. Would 2.2.6 be a cure for this? There's a bug in our handling of some CDROMs on the same bus as Zip drives. This was not fixed in time for 2.2.6, unfortunately. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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