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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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