From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 12:39:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05836 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA05817; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA00874; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:38:44 +0100 (MET) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610312038.VAA00874@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Disappointed by lack of ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM support In-Reply-To: <121A50140D61@bldg1.croute.com> from Larry Dolinar at "31. Oct. 96 9:07:43" To: LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com (Larry Dolinar) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:38:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: owner-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This may have (and probably has been) mentioned before: FreeBSD is much more > standards-driven than, say, Linux. End users often make the argument that > because something works with DOS/Win3.1/Win95, why doesn't it work with > this? I didn't read the original mail as "My ATAPI-CDROM isn't recognized when I booted 2.x.y." but more like "I read the READMEs and they looked the same, so nothing seems to have changed". Since, even on the 2.1.5 install disk some screens refer to 2.1.0, I think one can easily mislead by a casual look at the READMEs. Just my 0.03 DM Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de