Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:56:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wbart3@ktb.net (Bill Bartley) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: atapi/ide cdrom support Message-ID: <199603311956.MAA11641@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603302209.OAA30936@ktb1.ktb.net> from "Bill Bartley" at Mar 30, 96 02:09:13 pm
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> I downloaded your FreeBSD boot disk and when I used it to checkout > its hardware support, but it couldn't detect my cdrom drive, which > has an atapi/ide interface. Is this correct? This type of cdrom > drive is not exactly new - the Slackware 2.3 Linux distribution I > purchased a year ago supported these drive. > > Is your product really that far behind the times? It seems hard to > believe. How long ago was FreeBSD 2.1 created? Because these things can lock up IDE controllers when you check for them and they aren't really there, the default boot floppies don't do this. Instead, there is an atapi.flp boot floppy you should use instead. Again, since you may have multiple IDE controllers in your system, you will have to boot -v and use the confuration program (it will ask you at the -v boot prompt) and tell it your IDE CDROM configuration. Even so, this means FreeBSD probably has 1/5th the kernels that are included with your average Linux distribution of a year ago. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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