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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ATAPI (IDE) CDROM support will NOT be in FreeBSD 2.1!
Message-ID:  <Pine.AUX.3.91.951011175540.25105A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
In-Reply-To: <10694.813397075@time.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Sorry folks, but after considerable time and trouble invested in
> producing the extra IDE CDROM boot floppy as a test, I've received far
> too few success reports with it to consider it for 2.1.
> 
> Yes, I would have really liked this for 2.1 and I had high hopes that
> we'd be able to pull it off, but there's also a time for admiting the
> painful truth and cutting ones' losses, and I think that this time has
> come for the IDE CDROM support code.
> 

Well, thanks for trying, at any rate!  I just wish I could've helped more
but I've never built a release boot disk, and I'm just so busy with work
and other projects, that I doubt I will be able to whip up a working IDE
CDROM boot disk before the CD is pressed.  If I do, however, you'll be the
first to get a copy, and maybe if it is too late for the CDROM, at least
it can go on the FTP site.  By the way, just so I know, when IS the
official release date for 2.1.0 (if it's not the 8th anymore)? 

---Jake



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