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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE CDROM
Date: 26 Dec 1995 14:59:20 GMT
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Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> writes:

(Please, do only post with a Subject: line!)

> I have a friend trying to install FreeBSD on his newly bought Pentium 
> machine. His CD-ROM drive is an IDE drive and he can't seem to mount the 
> CD-ROM for installing.

ATAPI CDROM code is still experimental.  FreeBSD 2.1R comes with an
additional (alpha-quality) ATAPI kernel.  You might or might not be
happy with it.  Please, report success or failures.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)