From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 16:20:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA26101 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26094 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA29986; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:24:01 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:24:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Yingjun (Ian) He" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE CD Rom In-Reply-To: <199604212359.QAA22427@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk uOn Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Yingjun (Ian) He wrote: > What kind of pure IDE CD ROM Drive does FreeBSD 2.1 can recognize? > Can I use the secondary IDE controller for the CD ROM? Most. Some are quite cheezy and will not work. It's hit and miss. You certainly may put it on a second controller, but IMHO you should use the first one as much as you can (I don't know what behavior the ATAPI CDROM code exibits in this regard -- it's been known to favor some setups over others). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major