From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 05:10:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA13634 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 05:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (mangle-qmw.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.95.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13629 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 05:10:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root@canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [192.135.231.3] by mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3/DCS-srvr-3.0) with ESMTP; id NAA13859; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:09:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.89.3] by canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.7.5/QMW-server-2.8s+SMS) with SMTP; poster "Scott Mitchell "; id NAA17471; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:09:47 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:08:56 +0100 Message-Id: <199608301208.NAA27785@crux> To: Ken Lareau CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Creative CD-ROM on FreeBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <96723855@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ken Lareau said: >I have made several unsuccessful attempts to load FreeBSD 2.1 onto my system, >due to the fact that it seems that the Creative CD-ROM drive I have may not >be supported. According to the info only the 2x drives (562/563) are cur- >rently supposrt, and the drive I have is a 4x drive, though I'm uncertain of >the model number. > >I would like to know if I'm wasting my time attempting to make this drive >work, or whether I'm just not setting something correctly. Any help/advice >you could give would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks. > > >Ken Lareau >klareau@squonk.net > Is that an ATAPI (IDE) drive or the Creative proprietary kind? My Creative 4x ATAPI, piece of crap though it is, works most of the time. AFAIK all the proprietary interface models should work just fine. To get my drive to be recognised it had to be connected as the slave on the primary IDE controller. Hope this helps, Scott =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell, CompSci Dept, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK mailto:scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~scott finger scott@ruby.dcs.qmw.ac.uk for PGP public key