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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!qnet.com!usenet From: bruceb@qnet.com (Bruce Bergstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0 and Sony CD-rom Date: 9 Sep 1995 00:33:41 GMT Organization: Quantum Networking Solutions, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <42qnd5$b56@mandolin.qnet.com> References: <42doli$c9p@bubba.NMSU.Edu> <42idjf$b6p@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup21.av.ca.qnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 In article <42idjf$b6p@helena.MT.net>, nate@trout.sri.MT.net says... > >In article <42doli$c9p@bubba.NMSU.Edu>, >Gordon C. Salter <gsalter@nmsu.edu> wrote: >>I have been unsuccessful in my install attempts at BSD. I am using a >>386/40 (co-p installed), with the single most popular CD-ROM drive in the >>world for PC's: the sony drive. ya know, that one that came with >>soundblaster. > >Newer SNAP's should work, and so should the 2.0.5 release. Have you tried >the actual release? I have tried the BSD install with a 386 DX40 and an old Genstar 3000i CDRom to no avail. Are CD Rom drives one of the things that is hard coded or is there some way to configure a CD drive to work with BSD? Any help would be appreciated as I'm new and lost with BSD or any Unix for that matter :) The config program won't recognize my CD Rom drive although I believe it is SCSI. Thanks, Bruce