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From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 won't play and ATAPI support
Date: 21 Dec 1996 20:13:25 GMT
Organization: Best Internet Communications
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To: Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il>
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In article <32B435FF.15FB@math.tau.ac.il>,
Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il> writes:
> You "caught" my question. I wanted to ask it yesterday, but from the
> other end :-)
> Actually, when I recompiled the kernel, I could not understand WHY
> average user
> have to recompile the kernel in order to connect a sound card? O'k, now
> I
> understand *why*, I think.
>
> BTW I have another question in the same direction. ATAPI support is not
> included in the GENERAL kernel. It means that you have to recompile your
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
WRONG!!!
> kernel in order to see the ATAPI CDROM, but if you have FreeBSD on
> CDROM,
> you cannot read it because GENERAL kernel does not support it :-)
> How can you exit this situation?
I have a ATAPI IDE-CDROM which works fine under FBSD 2.1.5. Which release are
you using? Some ATAPI CD-ROM drives are not quite 'ATAPI Compliant'. My
first 2X cheapo CD-ROM didn't work with FBSD, so I bought a new Sony 8X (cdu311)
. This drive works fine without recompiling the kernel.
Burton