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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Asus CD-S500 (50x) ATAPI CD-ROM Drive
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:28:51 +0200
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> Replaced my defective CD-ROM drive with the above. FreeBSD 3.4 CD
> boots perfectly from the drive, but alas the rest of the installation
> fails because the drive is not found (not supported).
>
> Is the drive supported in 4.0?

Hi folks,

Justa note for the archives...  Lucien found that the problem stemmed
from the drive not being configured according to the ATAPI specs --
ATAPI drives may not be slaves on masterless channels.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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