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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD-ROM/Device not configured
Date: 9 Jul 1996 21:04:13 GMT
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Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep <ltaylor@nwlink.com> wrote:

> System: FreeBSD 2.1.release
> IDE CD-ROM drive

> Whenever I try to access the CD drive, I get "Device not configured";
> what am I doing wrong?

2.1R has known problems with IDE CD-ROM drives.  Upgrade, either to
one of the 2.2-SNAPs if you don't mind running experimental code, or
await the RSN release of 2.1.5.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)