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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:25:23 -0600
From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To: Steve Howe <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ex-buffoon seeks ATAPI CDROM advice
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this is weird, ATAPI CD-ROMS have been officialy supported for
quite a while.

could you send your kernel config file and harware specs of your
CD-ROM to the list?

Regards,

-Oscar

On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 06:24:19PM +0100, Steve Howe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   first thanks to Oscar, Mark, Chris, Woody & Doug for the 
> useful advice last time I mailed this group. I eventually
> successfully installed FreeBSD from a DOS (spit) partition.
> 
>   I am now able to do some unixy things. Hoorah! 
> 
>   But now I want to get my hands on the ports residing on the 
> CDROMs.
> 
>   I am still having trouble getting the kernel to recognise 
> my CDROM though. 
> 
>  As Doug pointed out last time round an ATAPI IDE CDROM, 
> while not supported in the novice installation,
> is referenced in the GENERIC kernel.
> 
>   So in the MYKERNEL version (which I have now succesfully 
> built and installed 6 times!) I have uncommented-out the:
> 
>   options     ATAPI
>   options     ATAPI_STATIC
>   device         wcd0
> 
> entries, while leaving, as advised on the web site, the 
> 
>   controller     wdc1
>   disk             wd2
>   disk             wd3
> 
> options which actually point at the relevant controller.
> 
> At boot-up time however the kernel seems to make no attempt 
> to resolve the wcd0 device I've told it to in MYKERNEL, and 
> consequently I am not able to mount it after I've logged in.
> 
> I had a search round the website and found one link which seemed
> to suggest that the ATAPI interface was experimental and should be 
> regarded as alpha. So is this a problem in 2.2.8?
> 
> Most advice gratefully received,
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Steve Howe
> Harpenden
> England (0 Sweden 0)
> 
>  

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