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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ? Install Walnut Creek from IDE CDROM?
Date: 27 May 1995 22:35:31 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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merriman@arn.net (David K. Merriman) wrote:
] Is it possible to install FreeBSD (Walnut Creek CD) to an 850M
] IDE using an IDE CDROM on the same drive chain? Specifically,
] it's a Maxtor 850M and an (ick!) Acer IDE CDROM set as the
] slave device.
Work is being done on an EIDE CDROM interface. It is not complete,
and the last expectation the author posted was "in time for 2.1";
this does *not* constitute a commitment, it's just when he said
he felt it would probably be ready.
You should note that an IDE CDROM is a SCSI CDROM with IDE glue
to hook to an IDE interface -- the actual commands sent over the
IDE bus are SCSI.
So actually if you don't want to handicap it with the command
translation and the squirting of commands over what is effectively
a serialized channel, you are better off just going SCSI, or even
Mitsumi or other embedded controller.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.