From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 13:44:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA24768 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 13:44:56 -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 NAA24758 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 13:44:43 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA23254; Fri, 28 Apr 95 14:38:10 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504282038.AA23254@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: CDROM support To: rickhall@vex.cs.colorado.edu (Richard Scott Hall) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 14:38:09 MDT Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504281916.NAA25626@vex.cs.colorado.edu> from "Richard Scott Hall" at Apr 28, 95 01:16:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.