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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:08:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net>
To: Bill Bartley <comet@loop.com>
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Subject: Re: Disappointed by lack of ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM support
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Bill,

I've read some of the other responses to your observation - and I
personally think that they are being a little rough on you and the other
OS.

I went out and bought a SCSI cd just to install 2.0.5. It worked. Then
2.1.0 came out and I bought it and tried it on my other machine with a
ATAPI/IDE CD and it worked fine. Then 2.1.5 and it worked fine with both
the SCSI and ATAPI/IDE. I have not noticed any difference in installation
or daily use (of course I'm on stand alone machines) of either CD and have
no problems (bugs or user).

Agreed that the IDE CD is the most popular because of the price and the
fact it come standard on most DOG/WINDOZE machines and I personally think
that they have done a splendid job of hacking together the driver to
accomodate us poor souls that don't have the resourses to buy or acess
workstations.

Give it a try, worst case senerio is you reinstall DOG/WINDOZE or the
other OS (which I'm sending the message from) and you go your merry way.

By the way - from the purist point of view, Linux is a nightmare - however
my machines (stand alone) don't agree.

Keith

 On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Bill Bartley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am writing to let you know why I could not consider using
> FreeBSD on my home machine -- the lack of ATAPI/IDE cdrom
> support.
> 
> The online docs say that the drivers are considered "ALPHA" quality.
> 
> They also say verbatim what they said when I first inquired about
> FreeBSD nearly two years ago.
> 
> Couldn't any progress have been made on the cdrom drivers in two
> years?
> 
> Bill
> 

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Keith
keithl@gil.net
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