From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 14:09:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA15428 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ktb1.ktb.net (root@ktb1.ktb.net [198.175.228.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA15407 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:09:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by ktb1.ktb.net (8.6.12/1.10s) with SMTP id OAA30936 for ;Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:09:13 -0800 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:09:13 -0800 Message-Id: <199603302209.OAA30936@ktb1.ktb.net> X-Mailer: NCSA Mosaic/2.0 (Windows x86) X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html From: wbart3@ktb.net (Bill Bartley) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: atapi/ide cdrom support Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi - 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? Bill