From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 13:14: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BEC437B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: (qmail 19989 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 20:15:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (216.151.64.86) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 20:15:13 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Brad Morgan" , "Mike Meyer" Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 16:11:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an old 486 Message-Id: <20010804201401.1BEC437B401@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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