Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:19:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Messmer <messmer@sirius.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creative Atapi cdrom Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910182019040.826-100000@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <7309.940241377@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Done, my new Toshiba works just great. Thanks for the responses! Tom On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:15:02 GMT, "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > > > Do you have the master slave jumper set correctly? An ATAPI cdrom should > > work easy as pie if your kernel supports it. > > Actually no. Many "Creative Labs" ATAPI CDROMs don't fully support the > ATAPI command-set. I should know, since I have two ATAPI drives that > don't work with FreeBSD, both Creative Labs rubbish. > > Your advice about the jumpers is sound -- also, make sure that the drive > isn't configured as a slave on a channel that has no master. If you're > convinced that the hardware is configured correctly, throw it away. :-) > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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