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From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:40:53 -0800
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On 31 Mar 1997, Rick Slater wrote:

> 
> Michael Craft (jsi@idiom.com) wrote:
>  
> : I've got the same problem here; for some reason the IDE cdrom
> : support was removed from the 2.1.7 and 2.2 distributions.
>  
> Are you sure about that?  In the versions I've used, you had to rebuild
> the kernel, but once that was done, you had full IDE cdrom support.
> 
> I'm going to order 2.2.x just as soon as Walnut Creek has it available
> on cdrom, and I'd sure hate to find out that atapi support is missing.
> 

According to the new docs for 2.2.x the ATAPI support is supposed to be 
pretty good and supports a great many atapi compliant cd drives. Hit 
FBSDs web site, has it all there.

Keith