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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!dfw.nkn.net!rowdy.lonestar.org!nemesis!uhclem From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Subject: Re: cdrom drives X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Organization: The Big Blue Box Message-ID: <DMquMB.H7M@nemesis.lonestar.org> References: <824244733.18299@richsoft.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:22:59 GMT Lines: 27 [0]steve@richsoft.demon.co.uk wrote: [0]I have just purchased FreeBSD cdrom disk - which arrived in record [0]time. However, my Pentium machine has Aztech drive not one of the [0]supported types. [0]Is there any thing I can do to trick - temporarily or permanently [0]freeBSD into thinking that my CDA 268-03I SE is a supported one? It would help a lot if you would let us know where the drive connects internally, since a lot of resellers stick their own name on a drive they buy from someone else. If the drive connects to a sound card or some plug-in card, what type of card is it, and what label is on the CD-ROM connector? Look for phrases like "Creative", "Panasonic", "Mitsumi", "Sony", etc. If the CD-ROM is connected to the main logic board, count the pins in the cable. If it has 50, it is a SCSI drive. If it has 40, it is an IDE drive. SCSI drives are supported and work reasonably well and IDE drives are supported at an Alpha level. It will be necessary to boot using the atapi.flp boot image if you have an IDE drive, rather than the normal boot.flp image. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" ^------(this is the fastest route)|"A what?" or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983