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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freeBSD installation from non scsi cdrom drive
Date: 31 May 1995 12:05:29 +0200
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Bryan McDade <mcdade@uwindsor.ca> wrote:

>Uh..ya....well i can't seem to get FreeBSD to reconize my cdrom (just a generic
> IDE drive) anyone have a clue what's going on? i know it doesn't (yet) 
>support Creative labs junk but it finds my Mitsumi (and i thought it was crap)
>drive ...weird..

IDE CDROMs are not yet supported (and won't be in 2.0.5).
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)