From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 20:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.sirius.com (mail3.sirius.com [205.134.253.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4AB915A78 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from messmer@sirius.com) Received: from ppp-asfm12--019.sirius.net (IDENT:messmer@ppp-asfm12--019.sirius.net [205.134.231.19]) by mail3.sirius.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA75264; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:19:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Messmer X-Sender: messmer@localhost.localdomain To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creative Atapi cdrom In-Reply-To: <7309.940241377@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Done, my new Toshiba works just great. Thanks for the responses! Tom On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message