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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
CC: luka <luka@venturanet.it>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ATAPI cdrom
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Snob Art Genre wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, luka wrote:
> 
> > hi
> > i can't able to find my ATAPI CD-ROM why?
> >
> > with the boot kernel on the atapi.flp when i make
> > the image disk and i reboot for install the cd-rom
> > it's found but when i reboot the machine for startup
> > the CD-ROM it's not found.
> > PLZ!! HELP ME OR tell me how and where i can found information
> > because it's very important for my work!!!!
> 
> What version of FreeBSD are you using?  atapi.flp no longer exists in
> 2.1.5 and later so I assume you're using 2.1.0.  You should probably
> upgrade to a newer version; a lot of bugs have been fixed and features
> added.

In any case, you can probably get it to work any how. You need to
rebuild the kernel with the following two lines in it:
options	ATAPI
device	wcd0

and then (as root):
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV wcd0

and reboot.

> 
   [snip]
> > thank you and good year
> >
> > luka
> >
> 
>  Ben
Nadav