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From: Philip Burden <phil.burden@zetnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with CDROM?
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:32:07 +0100
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In message <52rlee$ipt@nbdchc4.bnr.ca>
        lihong_yao@nt.com (lihong) writes: 

> Has anyone have any insight as to why my CDROM is not recognized by the OS?
> I am using a SAMSUNG 4x CDROM and it is configured as slave on the primary
> IDE controller. When the machine is booted wdc0 is found OK and the system 
> boots normally. I have ran out of ideas for the moment.

Atapi support in FreeBSD is still apparently very 'iffy', but one 
suggestion that does seem to work better than others, is to put your 
cdrom as master on your secondary ide channel. Works here with a Mitsumi Quad..

P.