From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 21:03:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA13984 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 21:03:01 -0700 Received: from ddi2.digital.net (ddi2.digital.net [198.69.104.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13969 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 21:02:56 -0700 Received: from vx.com (uucp@localhost) by ddi2.digital.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id AAA09143 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00:35 -0500 Received: from squid by vx.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10766; Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:56:39 EDT Received: by squid (931110.SGI/930416.SGI.AUTO) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id AA14075; Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:56:58 -0400 From: spp@vx.com (Stephen Potter) Message-Id: <9504192356.ZM14073@squid> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:56:54 -0400 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.1.0 22feb94 MediaMail) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I can't seem to find anything specific in any of the FAQs I've read, so I'm going to try here... Does FreeBSD 2.0 support ATAPI/IDE CDs or not? I recently bought the FreeBSD CDrom from WC and am trying to install it on an AcerPower Pentium 60 (the 8879? model) with a Mitsumi IDE CD. I don't see anywhere in the startup files that it can support that drive. Is it possible to pull certain parts of it off to my DOS slice (bin, compilers, and source, I suppose), install them and build a new kernel to handle the drive, or I am just basically out of luck with the drive? Steve PS: Sorry I'm not more up on my PC jargon, but I work with "real" machines (Suns and SGIs) on a regular basis. PCs are a new hobby I'm starting on, and I want a real OS (FreeBSD or Linux or both...) instead of just DOS/Windoze. -- Stephen P Potter spp@vx.com Varimetrix Corporation 2350 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 4 Palm Bay, FL 32905 (407) 676-3222 CAD/CAM/CAE/Software