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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support ever likely for Sanyo 3-disk 4x IDE CD-ROM?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:49:01 GMT
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Frank O'Donnell (f.odonnell@jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
: I just tried bringing up a FreeBSD 2.1 install diskette on a Gateway 2000
: P5-120 (120-MHz Pentium) that has, among other devices, a Sanyo 3-Disk 4x IDE
: CD-ROM drive (model number unknown; Gateway markets it as its own).
: I gather FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't support it, because it doesn't report seeing any
: CD-ROM drives when it starts up. Is support for this drive type ever likely?
: This isn't a showstopper for us, just curious.
did you use the atapi.flp ? - it contains an IDE/ATAPI cdrom driver -
you may try this one
t
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