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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!smirnoff.ittc.pgh.wec.com!news.galt.com!alex From: alex@nine.org (Alex Wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: nec260 IDE cd-rom Date: 31 Dec 1994 00:28:37 GMT Organization: Galt Technologies, Inc. Lines: 17 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <3e28jl$j8r@dagny.galt.com> References: <3dvudk$beb@gti.gti.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nine.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] James Walter Martin III (jwm3@gti.gti.net) wrote: : i have a NEC 260R IDE CD-ROM. i also have freeBSD 2.0 on CD-ROM. : from what i understand, freeBSD has no support for IDE CD-ROM drives. : so, i may have to turn to Linux (i'd rather not) if this is the case. : has anyone got a driver for my drive or am i SOL ? As far as I know there are no drivers for the CDR-260 (which isn't a straight IDE drive either in that it doesn't follow the ATAPI spec, so most systems (except DOS/Windows) don't support it). However this doesn't mean that you can't install off of teh FreeBSD disk. Just copy the appropriate files (the bindist, srcdist and whatever else you're planning on using) to a set of floppies or a MSDOS partition on a hard drive, and then do the install from there. alex