From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 13:12:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA24952 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:12:07 -0800 (PST) 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 NAA24895 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:11:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06802; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:06:54 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:06:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jeff Wheat cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soundblaster CD-ROMs In-Reply-To: <199603051509.KAA10182@tad.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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