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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:13:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Matthew Williams <matthew@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ZIP drive and the CDROM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811171112530.7696-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BE1251.1116A420@dewilabpc5.sees.bangor.ac.uk>

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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Matthew Williams wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just added a zip drive to two machines in work. Both zip drives are slaves on the second IDE channel, the master being a CDROM. Under Windows 95 both work fine. 
> 
> However, under FreeBSD 2.2.6, I can no longer mount the CDROM - the machine just hangs and requires a hard reset to get it going again after I issue the mount command. Is there something in the kernel configuration file that needs modifying to get it to work??
> 
> I am able to mount the zip drive using the wfd driver and it works fine.

I'm not aware of any compatiblity issues between CDROMs and Zip drives...
did you check your master/slave jumpers?

Doug White                               
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