From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:46:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00369 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00355 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id AAA12673; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:43:01 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610201643.AAA12673@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Nadav Eiron Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get an IDE CD-ROM work? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:25:07 -0400 Lines: 16 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Nadav Eiron wrote: >>>>>> I have a Philips ATAPI IDE 8x CD-ROM, which works fine under >> The ATAPI IDE CDROM is the only device connected to my primary IDE >> port, as slave, I have no other IDE devices. I checked /dev, making > I guess it won't work this way. Most of the time FreeBSD wants ATAPI > CDROM's to be the slave of *something* (read as: a hard disk). If you > don't have an IDE disk on your system there are two options: > 1. Get one (it can be any old scrap metal that speaks IDE). I'm not sure about this. If everything fales, I'll take a try. :) > 2. Use a SCSI CDROM (I assume that you're using SCSI for your hard disks Yes, I use 2 SCSI-2 HDes. // Donny