From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 09:47:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA02136 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:47:51 -0700 Received: from ddi2.digital.net (ddi2.digital.net [198.69.104.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA02129 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:47:49 -0700 Received: from vx.com (uucp@localhost) by ddi2.digital.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA09031 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:45:32 -0500 Received: from squid by vx.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17956; Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:41:57 EDT Received: by squid (931110.SGI/930416.SGI.AUTO) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id AA00780; Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:42:15 -0400 From: spp@vx.com (Stephen Potter) Message-Id: <9504201242.ZM778@squid> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:42:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs" (Apr 20, 10:22am) References: <9504201622.AA25219@cs.weber.edu> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.1.0 22feb94 MediaMail) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Apr 20, 10:22am, Terry Lambert wrote: > Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs > > I can't seem to find anything specific in any of the FAQs I've read, so I'm > > going to try here... > > > > Does FreeBSD 2.0 support ATAPI/IDE CDs or not? > > No. Even though FreeBSD has wonderful SCSI support and ATAPI is just > a way to cram SCSI commands down an IDE interface (suprise... bet you > thought there really was such a thing as an IDE CDROM drive), the > support isn't there yet. Thanks to all who have explained the situation to me. I think what I'll go ahead and do is return the FreeBSD 2.0 CD to WC, and wait for 2.1. Kind of depresssing actually, I was hoping to be able to use it. However, the CD->DOS->install won't work too well for me, as I don't have a lot of extra hard drive space, having now made partitions for FreeBSD, DOS, and Linux. Thanks again. Steve -- Stephen P Potter spp@vx.com Varimetrix Corporation 2350 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 4 Palm Bay, FL 32905 (407) 676-3222 CAD/CAM/CAE/Software