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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!zorch!news.aimnet.com!news From: Maxim Malkov <mmalkov@aimnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATAPI problems in 2.1.5 Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 10:52:38 -0700 Organization: Aimnet Information Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3229CD66.30FD@aimnet.com> References: <5036bl$3m5p@te6000.otc.lsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-berk1-21.iway.aimnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b8Gold (Win95; I) i have exactly the same probelm with the same cd-rom, which controller are you using and motherboard? btw there's an interesting feature: if i turn on auto-config in bios setup for the cd-rom and bios finds cd-rom i can't even boot freebsd, if i turn it off there(it's still visible from dos or unix) everything boots ok but there's a different problem occurs-i can't even install it from a dos partition or hd, i get a message like (wrote -1 bytes instead ot 1024 bytes)? interesting, isn't it. max. philip elcan wrote: > > I'm having problems with my ATAPI cdrom. I'm running 2.1.5. > <---SKIP---> > And then the drive is unusable. > > The drive works fine under DOS. > And if it makes a difference to anyone, I also happen to have a 2.2-SNAP from > June, and this release doesn't exhibit this behavior. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Philip Elcan > elcan@phgrav.phys.lsu.edu