Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:40:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROMS (was: help) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960714113910.2337A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607141154.NAA21845@allegro.lemis.de>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > Seriously, I think that this area and problems with EIDE disks are the > two biggest factors working against the spread of FreeBSD. ATAPI > CD-ROMs must account for 70% of installation problems. Soon they'll > be standard equipment on all PCs. We need to do something about the > situation. Remind me on the eide problem. (1024 cyl limit?) ATAPI- yes yes yes!! I know there is a new option ATAPI_STATIC that seems to help, but has any work gone into the probe & set up code? I DO hope the new driver is an improvement. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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