From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 08:05:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA02876 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibmmail.COM (ibmmail.com [199.171.26.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02871 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607291505.IAA02871@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from ibmmail by ibmmail.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 2495; Mon, 29 Jul 96 11:05:38 EDT Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:40:07 EDT From: "Stephen Palmer" To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Hitachi 4x ATAPI CDROM Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I know that ATAPI support is considered "Alpha" quality, but was wondering if someone could point me in the right directions on this. My work machine (Dell Optiplex, Pentium-90) has a Sony ATAPI that installed 2.1.0-Release off of CD with no (Okay "few") problems. I take this same CD and Boot Floppy to my home system, configured simialar (I tried the CDROM as slave on The Primary IDE, and maser on the Secondary IDE) At boot time, the system acts like it sees my CD Drive (wcd0: Hitachi.... sorry I don't have a log with me...) but when I try to install off of CD Media it reports "no supported CDROM Drives installed" or something very like that. Is this a problem with Hitachi's not being quite ATAPI? I Like the Drive for $$ reasons. Very low-cost. My other options for CD drives are Mitsumi or Toshiba. I remebered reading that Mitsumi's had problems so I avoided that. Any suggestions? Stephen L. Palmer uscgsynd@ibmmail.com - Columbia Gulf, Houston TX elrond@helix.xiii.com - Home