From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 23:34:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06492 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06466; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from myname.my.domain (client201-122-14.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.14]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with SMTP id CAA21255; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:32:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:32:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Donn Miller X-Sender: dmm125@myname.my.domain To: Mike Smith cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading Sun-formatted diskettes In-Reply-To: <199809250614.XAA00472@word.smith.net.au> 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 Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > The tech-support guy at Sun Microsystems said that maybe my CDROM wasn't > > 100% ATAPI/IDE compliant. Now I'm wondering why Solaris is so picky that > > it has to have a CDROM that is 100% IDE compliant, even though > > FreeBSD/Linux/Win98 can use the CDROM perfectly well. It's a BTC 24X max > > CDROM. > > It's a convenient excuse for not fixing their driver. I figured as much... here I am thinking my hardware is inadaquate. That guy was trying to tell me to replace my CDROM drive. I just told him it works fine on FreeBSD and Linux... He said he was suspicious of that "$19.95 special" I was using for a CDROM drive. ( I don't know how much it cost really, but I know Soren used the same brand to test his CDRW driver so I figured it couldn't be that bad). I thought OH, a drive doesn't work with Sun software so that automatically makes it a cheap piece of crap. Sounds like their cdrom drivers need fixing. Thanks Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message