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From: viper@buri.kuentos.guam.net (The Viper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Acer 8x IDE CD-ROM
Date: 4 Sep 1996 01:05:18 GMT
Organization: Kuentos Communications Inc.
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Jacob Lerner (2161) (lerner@telecomm.tadiran.co.il) wrote:
: I am about to buy 8x Acer CD-ROM. I'd like to know
[ snip ]
: The CD-ROM is so cheap and widespread that I do not believe
: I am alone in the Universe trying to use with FreeBSD.
<unhelpful followup>
Me too. :)
</unhelpful>
I've been trying to configure my Acer 8x CD-ROM with FreeBSD for several
days now. Glad to see someone else has the same problem. According to
the manuals for it, it's an EIDE CD-ROM, and I'm not a hardware person, but
according to the LINT configuration file, EIDE is not supported at this
time. I've added the ATAPI & wcd0 lines (incidentally, is it
"controller wcd0" or "device wcd0"... LINT's config says "device" but the
manuals (including the one @ Freebsd.org) say "controller"... neither work.)
but when I try to mount it, all I get is "Device not configured". It IS
jumpered as a slave device, I'm running a P-120 with 16MB Ram and a 2.5Gig
HD, 500MB of which is FreeBSD's. If anyone else has managed to find a way
to get it working, OR you need a guinea pig to try something new on, I'm
more than willing to try it.
BTW I have a PNP Sound card (Diamond)... I have no way of telling whether
BSD finds it at boot time. What sort of thing should I look for during
boot? Or is FreeBSD just so cool that it finds it automatically?
Many thanks to anyone who Knows The Answer and shares it...
Praise be to the Rev. Bob!
Steve Z.
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