Date: Tue, 25 Jun 96 18:24:13 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway Solo with ATAPI CD-ROM: How to install? Message-ID: <9605258357.AA835749115@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> You'll notice the pamphlet is the 2.1R version with a sticky label over > it. The 2.2 SNAP has the ATAPI code in the normal boot image. Hmmm. If that's so, it didn't recognize the drive. > Sounds like it's just a total loser of a unit 8( Actually, it runs rather well. I'm out to cure its biggest bug: the fact that it shipped with Windows '95 preinstalled. ;-) > What brand is the CDrom, and how is it supposedly connected? It's a Panasonic/Matsushita, and it's on the primary IDE interface together with the 1.2 GB hard disk. > You're going to have to figure out why the CD isn't behaving as expected, > which will basically mean sitting down with the source and the ATAPI spec > and trying to visualise how the buggers who designed it could have > misinterpreted or shortcut the spec (or find the bug in the ATAPI code) > such that yours isn't probed. Could it be that it won't probe for it on the same interface as the hard drive? > As for the '562, I can't say; check the Nomad stuff and see if they > reckon they have it working... Where would I find the "Nomad stuff?" (No quips about oases, please.... ;-) --Brett
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