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From: kalinash@netcom.com (Steve Spiller)
Subject: Sony CD-ROM Support Hoax?
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 04:42:41 GMT
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*sigh*
I finally receive my FreeBSD 2.0.5 CD-ROM in the mail today ( it was back-
ordered from Walnut Creek), and I go to install it with no luck.
The hardware guild lists under CD-ROM's "Sony CD-ROM".  I have a Sony CDU-535.
If I boot with the "-c" option and set up the device to match my port and irq
settings, then probe it, the drive spins up and the light comes on.  THis gets
my opes way up!  Then it says that it timed out.  No go.  Is there a way to
use this drive?  Will it work with 2.1?  Will that be here soon?

I'm very new to FreeBSD, converting over from Linux, so any help will be 
appreciated.

					-Steve
					 steve@microdot.com