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From: Minsung Kim <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM support
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 20:42:28 +0900
Organization: Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
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William Gianopoulos {84718} wrote:
>
> 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.
How are your IDE/ATAPI devices configured? ATAPI CD-ROM drives
should be recognized as wcd?, not as wd?.
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Kim, Minsung <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr> Undergraduate CS Dept.,
KAIST