Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:25:07 -0400 From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get an IDE CD-ROM work? Message-ID: <199610201643.AAA12673@ms1.hinet.net>
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-=*> Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> 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
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