Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 16:11:15 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an old 486 Message-ID: <20010804201401.1BEC437B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:51:18 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >What makes you think the CDROM drive is IDE and ATAPI? The >SoundBlaster CDROM drivers I'm familiar with all used proprietary >interfaces of some kind. If that's the case, the "matcd" device is the >only thing that might work with it. mainly cuz matcd are all 2x (at least the many i've ever seen). the older SB16s and such (the ones that had hardwired jumpers) were all matcd's, and some of the newer pnp's.. the ones after that had ide, mainly for the new 4x ide cdroms that came out because at the time most 486's only had one ide port, and a lot of people had 2 ide drives. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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