From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 16 01:24:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA14285 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 01:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA14276 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 01:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA07949; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:23:15 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10536; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:23:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA06597; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:19:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612160919.KAA06597@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Hitachi IDE CD-ROM drive... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:19:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: raf1@cris.com, gsieb@cris.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612160428.XAA01146@cliff.cris.com> from Rafael Portales at "Dec 15, 96 11:29:51 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rafael Portales wrote: > I have heard that 2.1.6 will support most IDE CD-ROM drives, but kind > of blanch at the thought of downloading that much over my 28.8 modem > --I'm sure you understand :}. Sorry, you have heard wrong. It's 2.2 that has the much better ATAPI driver. You can however download just the installation floppy, and see whether it's willing to work with your drive. (You have to explicitly hit the button before it will destroy anything, so don't worry.) Simply boot it, then Alt-F2, and look whether sysinstall announces that it's found a device of type CD-ROM. -- 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. ;-)