From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 19:27:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D5437B789 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 19:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.7.64.97] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12pztm-0005q1-00; Thu, 11 May 2000 21:49:35 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01760; Thu, 11 May 2000 21:49:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:49:24 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "y.pyjo yun" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atapi cd rom compatibility Message-ID: <20000511214924.B1522@parish> References: <20000511204155.21047.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000511204155.21047.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>; from pyjo@yahoo.com on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:41:55PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:41:55PM -0700, y.pyjo yun wrote: > Hi. > I recently install the freebsd 2.2 release in my > office > (ridjal computers co) > I intended to recommend it to my customers but a > little > problem arises........ > the atapi cd rom can't be recognised (after searching > in your website, it says that some/almost atapi's > can't be recognised; including acer oem, teradrive, > BTC, and many other cdrom companies ) > It can boot with cdrom (the installation part) but > when it want to start to copy file, the unrecognised > cdroms prompts ......... > Can you please help.. almost all my customer use > atapi's (its cheapier and easier to get) > Thanks. Well, 2.2 is a *very* old version of FreeBSD, and in those days ATAPI detection was somewhat poor. Can you u/g to 3.4? ATAPI support is *greatly* improved (only a few el cheapo CDs now seem to be a problem). > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message