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From: wag@swl.msd.ray.com (William Gianopoulos {84718})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM support
Date: 5 Dec 1995 23:15:34 -0500
Organization: Raytheon Company
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Minsung Kim <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr> writes:
>William Gianopoulos {84718} wrote:
>>
>> In the README file for the ATAPI boot floppy, it says that the CD_ROM
>> drive must be a master, not a slave. This seems like a strange restriction.
>> Also, this is not mentioned anywhere else in the documentation. Is this a
>> restriction of the driver or just of the boot floppy?
>>
>My LG (previously known as GoldStar) 4x CD-ROM drive worked well
>as a slave drive with the ATAPI boot floppy and a custom-compiled
>kernel. The kernel image in the root floppy (kernel.GENERIC)
>didn't recognized my CD-ROM drive.
I only saw the restriction mentioned in the ATAPI boot floppy documentation.
It may only be a restriction on the boot floppy provided. If it is, it really
doesn't matter because the boot floppy for ATAPI doesn't work at all anyway
(at least on my system) because the wd2 and wd3 lines were not commented out,
so the ATAPI CDROM get recognized as wd3 and the system hangs soon afterwards.
I think someone needs to make a new boot floppy for installation using ATAPI
CD-ROM dirves.
--
William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Electronic Systems
wag@swl.msd.ray.com
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This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.