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From: tom@bu.edu (Thomas P. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: atapi cdrom support
Date: 30 Jan 1997 17:13:51 GMT
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Anton =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6rnqvist?= (one@hem.passagen.se) wrote:
: When will FreeBSD support ATAPI CD-ROM's. The current support is quite
: limited. =
: 
: 
: I have a Toshiba CD-ROM, on the second primary IDE interface, and
: FreeBSD cant find it.
: 
: Any suggestions?
: 
: Anton H=F6rnquist.

Make sure it is configured as the MASTER drive.
If it is the slave and no master on the 2nd controller you may have
a problem. I did, even though dos saw it.