From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 07:32:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA02776 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 07:32:15 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA02771 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 07:32:13 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA24867; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 07:31:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199510181431.HAA24867@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: GheorgheArdelean cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aztech and IDE CD on FreeBSD ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:16:16 +0200." Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 07:31:52 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > PLEASE ANSWER to ardelean@[193.226.13.67] > Our domain isn't yet registerred! > >I am curently running, in my University, FreeBSD 2.0.5. I am thinking >about moving our Department server from Linux to FreeBSD but it seems >that I can't access my CD unit under it. ... >Best regards, > > Johny Beta ATAPI (ie IDE) cdrom support is in FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable. I'm not sure how easy it would be to bring those changes back into 2.0.5. The matcd driver is not designed to handle IDE devices, so I'm not surprised it doesn't work for you. I would suggest waiting until 2.1-RELEASE before moving your server away from Linux. You will also want to ensure that the ATAPI support in that release works for your CDROM drive (its really BETA if you know what I mean). 2.1-RELEASE should be availible in a couple weeks. >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >% Address: Gheorghe ARDELEAN >% West Univ. Of Timisoara >% Dept. Of Theoretical and Computational Physics >% V. Parvan No.4, Ro-1900, Timisoara, ROMANIA >% Email: ajohny@roearn.ici.ro; ardelean@[193.226.13.67] >% WWW URL: http://193.226.13.67/~ardelean/ardelean.html >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================