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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!cam.news.pipex.net!pipex!soap.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!ukc!crane.ukc.ac.uk!R.L.Hesketh From: R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD Date: Fri, 07 Jul 95 18:00:29 BST Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 29 Sender: R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk Message-ID: <470@crane.ukc.ac.uk> References: <3t9qvn$eln@gate2.internet-eireann.ie> <3tbs2d$4ro@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Reply-To: R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) NNTP-Posting-Host: crane.ukc.ac.uk In article <3tbs2d$4ro@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: >Bzzzzzt!! Sorry, this should be documented somewhere; ATAPI >CD-ROM drives are not supported in 2.0.5. There's a chance they >might be in 2.1. The only Mitsumi drives that are currently >supported are those that use the proprietary Mitsumi interface, >which is not the same as ATAPI. >Sorry, but dems da breaks. Hopefully the support for these >drives won't be long in coming; these drives are becoming >annoyingly popular. So can we help the developers to produce a working ATAPI driver as soon as possible? I am willing to hack code and beta test, the same goes for changes to the floppy tape driver to support the Jumbo 350 and variable length tapes (I had a quick hack but I don't have the interface spec). Plus I am also waiting for XFree86 3.1.2 to be released as I have a S3 968 chipset based graphics card! (or should I use Linux which has a binary of the new server already available 8-). Once I get all these small hardware support problems out of the way I can get back to writing free X applications on my new Pentium box (UNIX at home at last!). I know a lot of this is "RSN" but FreeBSD is so good that I'm getting impatient for the rest of it!! 8-) Richard