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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Promise EIDE MAX card not supported?
Date: 4 Apr 1996 22:44:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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wallace@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Wallace Su) writes:

> The card is detected by the boot disk, but the CDROM is not. What is the 
> problem? Is it because of the CDROM or the MAX card not supported by 
> FreeBSD 2.1?

FreeBSD 2.1R does only have very preliminary support for IDE CDROMs,
and it's not in the default kernel.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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