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From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: IDE CD-ROM works ? (Re: Gateway-2000's)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 02:37:30 CST
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	     (from John Nistler <nistler@millcomm.com>)
	     (at Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:05:37 -0600)
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Hi John, on Feb 18 you wrote:

> > : I am having problems installing FreeBSD on a Gateway-2000 machine. Has anyone
> > : else been able to successfully install FreeBSD on such a beast ?

> yes, but to get the ide cdrom to work, I had to move it from the 
> second ide controller to the first controller.  Change the hard disk to
> be master and the cdrom drive to be slave.

Even though there is no stated IDE support, you have managed to get your IDE
CD-ROM to WORK ???