Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:09:27 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Wouter Grol <wgrol@home.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cdrom Message-ID: <938E3876-5CD6-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <402A985A.7040007@home.nl> References: <402A985A.7040007@home.nl>
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On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Wouter Grol wrote: > I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the > bios does not see the cdrom drive. But windows does. Hi-- If the BIOS doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive, that's generally a NO-GO for FreeBSD working with the drive. You probably have a proprietary driver for the device to make it work under Windows. However, I think FreeBSD had limited support for some of the old pre-ATAPI CD-ROM drives from Mitsumi and Sony (rebranded by Creative)...from LINT see: # # Miscellaneous hardware: # # mcd: Mitsumi CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface # scd: Sony CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface Is your drive one of these? Otherwise, it's probably better to spend $50 and get a standard CD-ROM drive... -- -Chuck
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