From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 12:01:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA06501 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:01:13 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA06495 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:01:10 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA26332; Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:54:40 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504201854.AA26332@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs To: nwestfal@indigo.csci.csusb.edu (Neal Westfall) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:54:39 MDT Cc: spp@vx.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504201828.AA13147@indigo.csci.csusb.edu> from "Neal Westfall" at Apr 20, 95 11:28:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > No. Even though FreeBSD has wonderful SCSI support and ATAPI is just > > a way to cram SCSI commands down an IDE interface (suprise... bet you > > thought there really was such a thing as an IDE CDROM drive), the > > support isn't there yet. > > Does this mean that you can attach an "IDE" CDROM to a SCSI adapter? No, not unless the interface translation hardware is seperate. The only seperate hardware I have converts between normal and differential SCSI. I suspect that you won't find any. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.