Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 11:40:23 +1100 (DST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atapi.flp weirdness Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951102113907.5101A-100000@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199511011439.OAA09568@canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > yesterday I downloaded the latest atapi.flp from the FreeBSD mirror at > sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk, full of anticipation at finally being able to use my > CD drive with FreeBSD. Anyway, booted up my home machine (which has a > C-labs IDE CDROM hooked up to a SoundBlaster) and watched it completely > fail to find any trace of the CD :( Looking around in the config editor, I > couldn't find any devices listed that claimed to be the ATAPI driver. I > expected (at worst) that it would look for and fail to find my drive, but > it doesn't seem to even be looking! > > So, am I being _incredibly stupid_ or is there something dodgy about this > atapi.flp? I downloaded the file from sunsite again today and tried it on > a work machine (without an IDE CDROM) with the same results. BTW, my CDROM > works fine under DOS/Windows and OS/2 so I don't think hardware is at > fault. > > Cheers, > > Scott Mitchell > > > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell, CompSci Dept, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK > email: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk WWW: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~scott/ > finger scott@redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk for PGP public key > I experienced the same thing.. there didn't even seem to be a probe for the CD Cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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