Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:54:39 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: nwestfal@indigo.csci.csusb.edu (Neal Westfall) Cc: spp@vx.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs Message-ID: <9504201854.AA26332@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504201828.AA13147@indigo.csci.csusb.edu> from "Neal Westfall" at Apr 20, 95 11:28:19 am
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> > No. Even though FreeBSD has wonderful SCSI support and ATAPI is just > > a way to cram SCSI commands down an IDE interface (suprise... bet you > > thought there really was such a thing as an IDE CDROM drive), the > > support isn't there yet. > > Does this mean that you can attach an "IDE" CDROM to a SCSI adapter? No, not unless the interface translation hardware is seperate. The only seperate hardware I have converts between normal and differential SCSI. I suspect that you won't find any. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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