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From: gp@asimov.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount external CD-ROM: More Info.
Date: 2 Apr 97 12:38:43 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: gp@wilde.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak) wrote:
: 
: > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.7. It is an ATAPI cd-rom with standard
: > IDE controller from CNF inc. on PCMCIA card.
: 
: Your best bet is probably the PAO floppy.
: 
: > FreeBSD "sees" it. At boot it says: zp: PCMCIA slot0: CNF CD_M~CD_ROM~M1~
: 
: Uh, no.  zp is an Ethernet driver for the 3C589 card.  If it tries to
: find your IDE controller, there's for sure something more than a
: little wrong with it. :)
: 
: -- 
: 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. ;-)
: 
Thanks for your reply, but I checked the Handbook, FAQ, sample kernels
and "man" pages-- sorry to say I don't know what you mean by "PAO
floppy".

If ignorance is bliss, I must be ecstatic.

-Greg