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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.infi.net!usenet From: kevin1@nr.infi.net (kevin1) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: cdrom on ide - kllbsd.txt [1/1] Date: 21 Jul 1996 09:11:30 GMT Organization: Your Organization Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4sss82$j0s@nw101.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pa1dsp13-ws.nr.infi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.90.6 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: Sun, 21 Jul 96 03:38:52 PDT From: kevin1@nr.infi.net Subject: Re: CDROM on IDE? X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage References: <4rjve9$ju2@netaxs.com> <31E048DE.446B9B3D@freebsd.org> <4s1m26$ard@netaxs.com> <4s4oia$ias@uriah.heep.sax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In article <4s4oia$ias@uriah.heep.sax.de>, <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes: > From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Subject: Re: CDROM on IDE? > Date: 12 Jul 1996 05:41:30 GMT > heller@cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote: > > I just think it was kind of strange that FreeBSD is BUILT for the PC > > and 90% of the ( I guess at the figure, please don't flame me ) PC's > > out there are IDE based. > > No. It's definately not built for ``the PC''. > > It's built for Unix workstations based on the i[3456]86 CPU. It > incidentally sometimes even runs on cheap PC hardware. ;-) > > I hope you understand the difference between both. I can assure you, > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: > this is an interesting thread. i have a slightly different problem with my phillips 6x atapi ide cdrom. i was able to install freebsd 2.1 with the cdrom because it was recognized by the probe from the boot floppy. but after the install is complete and i am now booting from the hard drive the probe fails to detect the cdrom. i am new to bsd but i have re done this 4 times and every time the boot floppy detects the cdrom at boot and the hard drive boot does not detect the cdrom and hence i cannot mount the cdrom. any help would be appreciated. thanks kevin