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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: install error: cdrom not recognized
Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:37:35 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Super-User <root@255.255.255.170> wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don'tya think this is a little bogus?
> controller. I have two IDE drives on the 1st controller
> and the cdrom is on 2nd controller.
Hard luck. 2.1.x wasn't very good in detecting all kind of ATAPI
CD-ROM drives. 2.2 is much better at this (as has been discussed here
many times).
Maybe you can get it working by putting the CD-ROM as slave on the
first controller. Maybe not.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)