Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:46:38 -0500 From: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Hardware that works Message-ID: <a05010406b6b3abe43b87@[153.9.17.27]>
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I've just looked through the 4.2 release notes regarding supported configurations. I didn't see anything about CD burners. Does having ATA among supported disk controllers mean that ATA CD burners should all work? (I also checked appendix F in the Handbook, but what's there seems to be about 5 years old, at least the part about burning CD's.) There are probably more places I should have found to look in but didn't. It took me a while to decide to write this because I was afraid that somebody might interpret it as a complaint. That's not my intention; it would be churlish. You guys are doing us all a great service, and we appreciate it. However I think I'm sort of stuck here and need some help. I've got a lab full of old 100-Mhz. Zenith Campus Z-Stations that I use in my networking course. About all we do is to install FreeBSD on all of them and hook them together and make them talk to each other, but there are some things that should be backed up from time to time, and burning CD's seems to be the right way to do it. I don't want to buy something I can't use. In case it does you any good to know this, FreeBSD works fine on the Z-Stations, except that it can't see the ATAPI CD drive on most of them. T'is a puzzlement, but we get by ok. On the other hand, these machines came with Accton EN1661 Ethernet cards, and they all seem to work just fine using the NE2000 driver. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 If there is one word to describe me, that word would have to be "profectionist". Any form of incompitence is an athema to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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