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Date:      Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:10:51 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Cc:        Didier Derny <didier@aida.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... 
Message-ID:  <199509162210.PAA01141@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 95 08:53:32 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950916084918.2681A-100000@localhost> 

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>> the entry 'wdc0' and remove it. We have not yet brought in the ATAPI cdrom
>> support.
>> 
>> -DG
>> 
>
>But ATAPI support WILL be added to -stable sometime before 2.1.0, right? 
>I ask because so many people have bought IDE CD-ROM drives (including
>myself and one friend who wants to install FreeBSD but wait for the CD-ROM
>release of 2.1.0 :-) and the vast majority of drives will probably work with
>the current ATAPI drivers.  Support for the largest possible range of
>CD-ROM drives is also important in order to actually INSTALL FreeBSD when 
>it's distributed on CD-ROM without copying it to the hard drive, first.  
>Just wanted to verify that this WOULD be in 2.1.0, even if it does have 
>some problems, it's far better than nothing.

   There are serious bugs in the code at the moment that cause it to break
support for a significant number of IDE _disks_. I will not be bringing in
this code until those bugs are fixed.

-DG



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