Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:32:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading Sun-formatted diskettes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980925022501.178A-100000@myname.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199809250614.XAA00472@word.smith.net.au>
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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
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