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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys. Date: 17 Jun 1996 04:37:11 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4q2ndn$nam@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4q08o1$jfn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q1c1a$19c_002@mypc.neosoft.com> <4q1ufg$kku@client2.news.psi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Dan Nelson <dan@dan.emsphone.com> wrote: >Considering that EVERY IDE CDROM I'VE EVER SEEN comes with ITS OWN >ATAPI driver that doesn't work with any other drives, it can't really >be that much of a standard. That said, I have had no trouble with the Considering that Linux, OS/2, Windows 95, and Windows NT all manage to support most of those drives without having to have a separate driver for each one, it's standard enough. What is sad about FreeBSD IDE CD-ROM support is that the boot kernels on the CD-ROM are misconfigured, making it fail in a lot of cases where it should work. --Tim Smith