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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!pleung From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATAPI CDROM Help needed: "atapi0.1: unknown phase" Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:22:44 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 18 Message-ID: <553164$18@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <550cf7$9ka@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> <3273DBAD.33D5@best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagarin.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pleung X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Burton Sampley (bsampley@best.com) wrote: : message "unknown phase" he said FBSD could not "read/use" my cdrom. I : had a cheap 2X IDE (generic brand) cdrom. My solution was to purchase a That's because not all IDE drives are fully ATAPI compatible, even if it says ATAPI, especially drives that are below 4X. The newer IDE CD roms, 4X and 8X tend to follow to ATAPI standard more closely than the old ones. That's why you will have a better chance of getting a new CD drive to work than an old one. : new IDE cdrom. I found a Sony CDU311 8X EIDE cdrom for about $105.00 : USD at a local computer shop. That solved the problem. I hope this : helps. Oh, one other thing, make sure the cdrom drive is the slave : drive. I've heard this is the only way FBSD can use an IDE cdrom (don't I also have my cdrom mounted as slave.