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From: "Glauco Rovere" <glauco@sidin.it>
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:32:23 +0100
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Hi

I'm new to Unix and I'm just trying some OS, I'm preferring for the moment
FreeBSD to Linux becouse it seem to be more stable, more "standard" and
less confused.

I've installed FreeBSD in a "old" 486,but I have this problem:

I can't see well my CD-ROM drive, my configuration is a AMD486 40Mhz, old
mainboard (16 bit) and a CL 6426 built on the motherboard, only one IDE
controller, one IBM HD of 250 MB as master and a HITACHI atapi CDROM as
slave.

Normally i Can't see the CD-ROM, in fact for the installation I had to use
the CD-ROM from my other pc, a Goldstar 8x atapi and all went OK.

The problem is that I can't see my CD also on Linux (neither the Goldstar),
BUT if i disable from bios the first hard disk, setting none and none into
the two HD, THEN i can find the Hitachi CD-ROM...

Obviously after installation I Can't boot the HD, so i Have to set the
right parameters into the BIOS...

Any suggestions?

One tip: The probe find something strange: it sees only a part of the name
of the CD something like H@T@C@I and then says ATAPI: not ATAPI protocol.
If I disable from bios my HD then it see well HITACHI 7730 ATAPI CDROM.

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