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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc: Tom Messmer <messmer@sirius.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Creative Atapi cdrom 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:15:02 GMT."
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:15:02 GMT, "Jason C. Wells" wrote:

> Do you have the master slave jumper set correctly? An ATAPI cdrom should
> work easy as pie if your kernel supports it.

Actually no. Many "Creative Labs" ATAPI CDROMs don't fully support the
ATAPI command-set. I should know, since I have two ATAPI drives that
don't work with FreeBSD, both Creative Labs rubbish.

Your advice about the jumpers is sound -- also, make sure that the drive
isn't configured as a slave on a channel that has no master. If you're
convinced that the hardware is configured correctly, throw it away. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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