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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:06:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jeff Wheat <jeff@tad.cetlink.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Soundblaster CD-ROMs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960305130525.6494I-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603051509.KAA10182@tad.cetlink.net>

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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Jeff Wheat wrote:

> > Don't ask me how though -- I went the easy way with SCSI.
> 
> I now have my cdrom drive set as master, on the primary IDE controller.
> The other drives in the system are SCSI attached to an AHA1542 controller.
> The soundblaster card has it's IDE interface disabled. Running under all of
> the 2.2-SNAPshots to date have left me unable to use my cdrom drive at all.
> With the 2.2-960226-SNAP, any accesses to the sound card cause the machine to
> either hang, or panic (dies too quick to catch the error). I understand that
> the SNAPS are supposed to be untested and unstable, though I wonder why things
> that worked under 2.1-Release are now utterly busted. Can anyone offer any
> insight on this?

Oh, now you are pushing it.  I don't know much about ATAPI to begin with, 
and now the SNAPs which I haven't messed with yet...:-)  

Someone else want to bail me out here?  

I'd trash your CD and get a SCSI one, especially if you already have the 
controller.  The Plextor 4PleXPlus is quite nice.  :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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