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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 14:22:51 EST
From: haar@zip.com.au (David Haar)
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Subject: My experiance setting up IDE CDROM!
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Hi all!

FreeBSD newbie here, have been having lots of fun so far!

One major problem ( well, major for me :) ) was getting my Mitsumi IDE
CDROM working ( a FX-400 I think).  I've been following the question
digest for a while and went back through them trying to find out how
to get it working.  As I've seen a lot of people with problems similar
to mine I thought I'd post here what I did to get it working.  Very
simple really!

I have two IDE drives off the primary controller in my system that has
the CD-ROM drive.  The CD-ROM is hanging off the ATAPI controller of
my el-cheapo sound card (ES866? based).  No problems with the CD-ROM
under OS/2 or Win '95.

I had every thing OK in kernel config etc, the second IDE controller
was found during boot was found but alas no CD.

What didn't occur to me that you need to set an IDE CD-ROM to slave or
master.  It was set to slave out of the box, changed it to master and
bang, there's my CD!  How exciting, no more copying to my DOS
partition to get ports etc, my life is about to become much easier (
yeah right :) ).  Bloody simple, bloody stupid of me too!

Hope this helps someone!

PS, I havn't tried this with the boot floppy.....

-=Dave.
haar@zip.com.au