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From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI CDROM Help needed:  "atapi0.1: unknown phase"
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:00:02 -0800
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Patrick Leung wrote:
> 
> 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.

I wouldn't be too quick to blame the cheap 2X cdrom for not being ATAPI
compliant.  It worked perfect for loading and using Linux 1.2.13 from
the Slackware 3.0 CDROM.