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From: ck@news.toplink.de (Christian Kratzer)
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Date: 3 Jan 1996 09:34:51 GMT
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Tim Smith (tzs@coho.halcyon.com) wrote:

: 2. There is hardware that is *not* weird at all the FreeBSD is behind in
: support for.  IDE CD-ROM, for example.  Even Warp and NT, the usual champions
: for being late to support hardware, have no trouble with my Toshiba IDE
: CD-ROM, for example, but FreeBSD 2.1 won't see it during install.   I haven't
: peeked into the box yet to see if I've got master/slave set to the way
: FreeBSD wants it to be, but their are two possibilities:

: (a). I've got it set wrong.  If so, this is a deficiency in FreeBSD CD-ROM
: support, because NT, Warp, DOS, Linux, and Windows 95 all have no trouble
: with it set the way it is.

: (b). I've got it set right.  If so, something's wrong with FreeBSD.

I think a very large portion of the FreeBSD and NetBSD user community would
considre an IDE CDROM (and also other ide devices) a "wierd device" they would 
not touch with 5 foot isolated pole ;->

This could be an indicication that FreeBSD is used far more in professional
scsi only environments and far less in a home/garage environments.


Greetings
Christian

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