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Subject: Re: Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM
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At 02:04 AM 3/6/2004, Rishi Chopra wrote:
>What if the drive is recognized by the BIOS?

Then you know its cabled correctly. It can still be misjumpered or bad. 
FBSD doesn't use the bios functions to talk to the drive.

--Chuck