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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys. Date: Mon, 17 Jun 96 15:05:33 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4q3s7t$1hs_006@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <4q08o1$jfn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q1c1a$19c_002@mypc.neosoft.com> <4q3kgq$le4@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.134 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 In article <4q3kgq$le4@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>, rnestor@metronet.com,rnestor@ti.com wrote: >In article <4q1c1a$19c_002@mypc.neosoft.com>, conrads@neosoft.com says... >> >>Speaking of things that SUCK... >> >>Providing only "experimental" (read: doesn't fucking work!) support for IDE >>CD-ROMs *really* blows. >> >Whoa! My IDE CD-ROM worked right out of the box with the 2.1 release on >CD-ROM and it's worked with all the SNAPs since. "Experimental" may mean it >doesn't work on all IDE CD drives, but certainly doesn't mean it's busted for >every IDE CD drive. OK, now, with the benefit of hindsight, I can safely say that the IDE support is fine. It's just that the damn ide kernel supplied on the disc is rotten! :-) Or maybe not. All I know is, it didn't work for me until I did my own custom rebuild, and remade the wcd0 device. This should not be necessary! The docs are somewhat misleading, too, saying the IDE CD-ROM *must* be a slave device. Not true. I do hope they'll clean this up for the next release and spare any other newcomers the anguish I just went through. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/