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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



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