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Subject: ATAPI CD-ROM on Primary IDE, slave drive?
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:15:45 -0500 (CDT)
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I have heard that the ATAPI boot image is set up for the CD to be
on the secondary IDE bus, as master.  If this is the case, is there
a way, with boot -c or something, to set it for Primary IDE, Slave?

I have looked in /cdrom1/*.TXT and /cdrom2/doc/* and found almost
no information pertaining specifically to the ATAPI support.
(Fortunately, "atapi" is pretty unique, because grepping for "-i
ide" gets provide(s), side(s), and idea(s)... :-)  In fact, I have
found almost nothing on ATAPI support: how it is configured or what
options there may be.  Am I looking in the wrong place?  If so,
where is the right place?

I have a geographically-distant friend who is trying to load FreeBSD
on a new Gateway box with Win95 pre-loaded.  The CD worked fine
under Win95, but the atapi boot image doesn't find it.

Thanks for any and all help!

		 John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services
E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG	    USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN  55417