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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: Ken Marsh <Durang@U.Washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cdrom on ide - kllbsd.txt [1/1] Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 22:38:46 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31F313E6.231A@U.Washington.edu> References: <4sss82$j0s@nw101.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs23-14.u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) To: kevin1 <kevin1@nr.infi.net> kevin1 wrote: > > 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? > > 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 I have spent alot of time making FreeBSD go on my Atapi CD. e-mail me, and I can probably field most of your questions from memory. Ken Marsh