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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM on IDE? Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 16:31:42 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31E048DE.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <4rjve9$ju2@netaxs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: heller@cdnow.com A. Karl Heller wrote: > > I want to move over to FreeBSD.. but I only have an IDE cdrom. > What version should I purchase on CDROM? I mean, I guess I don't > want to get 2.1 because it doesn't support it that well right? > So I should just buy the 2.2 SNAP shot? Wait for 2.1.5 if you want IDE CDROM suppose that's a little easier to use, though probably no more functional overall. > And... why is the IDE / CDROM thing such a forgotten feature? Lack of volunteers to work on and improve it - it's that simple. Are you volunteering? :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project