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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 95 14:38:09 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        rickhall@vex.cs.colorado.edu (Richard Scott Hall)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CDROM support
Message-ID:  <9504282038.AA23254@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504281916.NAA25626@vex.cs.colorado.edu> from "Richard Scott Hall" at Apr 28, 95 01:16:11 pm

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> Recently I have become interested in running FreeBSD on my new
> Dell system.  The CDROM drive on my system is an EIDE Quad Speed
> model.  I was told that FreeBSD does not support this drive of
> CDROM currently.  Do you have plans to support it?  If so, when
> might support be available?

It's being worked on.  I don't know if it is even alpha yet, though.

Supposedly 2.1 Release will have it.

FYI, what you have there is a CDROM that takes SCSI II commands
through an IDE interface.  Seems IDE is determined to replace SCSI
by incorporating it.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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