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From: Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: atapi cdrom support
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:52:55 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Anton H=F6rnqvist wrote:
> =

> When will FreeBSD support ATAPI CD-ROM's. The current support is quite
> limited.

Well, it does.  Sort of.

> =

> I have a Toshiba CD-ROM, on the second primary IDE interface, and
> FreeBSD cant find it.
> =

> Any suggestions?

Yeah.  Make it the slave device on the
primary IDE channel.  I gather you have
it as master/single device on the
secondary IDE channel.  I think this was
posted a few times here before.

> =

> Anton H=F6rnquist.

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Gabor Kincses
(gabor@acm.org)